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Privilege checks for UPDATE statements are wrong.

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      UPDATE statements confuse SELECT and UPDATE privileges. Consider the following SET clause:

      SET updateColumn = selectColumn

      According to part 2 of the 2011 edition of the SQL Standard, that SET clause requires the following privileges:

      1) UPDATE privilege on updateColumn. Privileges for the left side of a SET clause are described by section 14.14 (update statement: searched), access rule 1b.

      2) SELECT privilege on selectColumn. Privileges for the right side of a SET clause are described by section 14.15 (set clause list) and the various productions underneath value expression. In this case, we have a column reference, whose privileges are governed by section 6.7 (column reference), access rule 2.

      However, Derby requires the following:

      1') UPDATE privilege on both updateColumn and selectColumn

      When we address this bug, we should make corresponding changes to the MERGE statement.

      The following script shows the current behavior:

      connect 'jdbc:derby:memory:db;user=test_dbo;create=true';

      call syscs_util.syscs_create_user( 'TEST_DBO', 'test_dbopassword' );
      call syscs_util.syscs_create_user( 'RUTH', 'ruthpassword' );

      connect 'jdbc:derby:memory:db;shutdown=true';

      connect 'jdbc:derby:memory:db;user=test_dbo;password=test_dbopassword' as dbo;

      create table t1_025
      (
      a int primary key,
      updateColumn int,
      selectColumn int,
      privateColumn int
      );

      grant update ( updateColumn ) on t1_025 to ruth;
      grant select ( selectColumn ) on t1_025 to ruth;

      insert into t1_025 values ( 1, 100, 1000, 10000 );

      connect 'jdbc:derby:memory:db;user=ruth;password=ruthpassword' as ruth;

      – correctly succeeds because ruth has UPDATE privilege on updateColumn
      update test_dbo.t1_025 set updateColumn = 17;

      – the error message incorrectly states that the missing privilege
      – is UPDATE privilege on privateColumn
      update test_dbo.t1_025 set updateColumn = privateColumn;

      – incorrectly fails.
      – ruth does have UPDATE privilege on updateColumn
      – and SELECT privilege on selectColumn, which should be good enough.
      – however, the error message incorrectly states that the missing privilege
      – is UPDATE privilege on selectColumn.
      update test_dbo.t1_025 set updateColumn = selectColumn;

      – incorrectly succeeds even though ruth does not have SELECT privilege on updateColumn
      update test_dbo.t1_025 set updateColumn = 2 * updateColumn;

      set connection dbo;

      select * from t1_025 order by a;

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