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Nadav Har'El 3c969e2122 cql: document and test permissions on materialized views and CDC
We were recently surprised (in pull request #25797) to "discover" that
Scylla does not allow granting SELECT permissions on individual
materialized views. Instead, all materialized views of a base table
are readable if the base table is readable.

In this patch we document this fact, and also add a test to verify
that it is indeed true. As usual for cqlpy tests, this test can also
be run on Cassandra - and it passes showing that Cassandra also
implemented it the same way (which isn't surprising, given that we
probably copied our initial implementation from them).

The test demonstrates that neither Scylla nor Cassandra prints an error
when attempting to GRANT permissions on a specific materialized view -
but this GRANT is simply ignored. This is not ideal, but it is the
existing behavior in both and it's not important now to change it.

Additionally, because pull request #25797 made CDC-log permissions behave
the same as materialized views - i.e., you need to make the base table
readable to allow reading from the CDC log, this patch also documents
this fact and adds a test for it also.

Fixes #25800

Closes scylladb/scylladb#25827
2025-09-18 07:41:35 +03:00
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