Example of privileges on the diagnostics table

The following example illustrates how the initial set of privileges on a diagnostics table is derived from the current set of privileges on the target table.

For example, assume that a table called cust_subset consists of the following columns: ssn (customer's social security number), fname (customer's first name), lname (customer's last name), and city (city in which the customer lives).

The following set of privileges exists on the cust_subset table:

User alvin is the owner of the table.
User barbara has the Insert and Index privileges on the table. She also has the Select privilege on the ssn and lname columns.
User carrie has the Update privilege on the city column. She also has the Select privilege on the ssn column.
User danny has the Alter privilege on the table.

Now user alvin starts a violations table named cust_subset_viols and a diagnostics table named cust_subset_diags for the cust_subset table, as follows:

START VIOLATIONS TABLE FOR cust_subset
   USING cust_subset_viols, cust_subset_diags;

The database server grants the following set of initial privileges on the cust_subset_diags diagnostics table:

User alvin is the owner of the diagnostics table, so he has all table-level privileges on the table.
User barbara has the Insert, Delete, Select, and Index privileges on the diagnostics table.
User carrie has the Insert, Delete, Select, and Update privileges on the diagnostics table.
User danny has no privileges on the diagnostics table.