Please be careful not to assign SUPER to just anyone. Once a DB Server reaches the max_connections limit, only one DB Connection is allowed to login and that user must have the SUPER privilege. Otherwise, a DBA cannot login to perform major operations mentioned by @DTest.
As to the question, here is mysql.db from MySQL 5.0.45
mysql> desc mysql.db;
+-----------------------+---------------+------+-----+---------+-------+
| Field | Type | Null | Key | Default | Extra |
+-----------------------+---------------+------+-----+---------+-------+
| Host | char(60) | NO | PRI | | |
| Db | char(64) | NO | PRI | | |
| User | char(16) | NO | PRI | | |
| Select_priv | enum('N','Y') | NO | | N | |
| Insert_priv | enum('N','Y') | NO | | N | |
| Update_priv | enum('N','Y') | NO | | N | |
| Delete_priv | enum('N','Y') | NO | | N | |
| Create_priv | enum('N','Y') | NO | | N | |
| Drop_priv | enum('N','Y') | NO | | N | |
| Grant_priv | enum('N','Y') | NO | | N | |
| References_priv | enum('N','Y') | NO | | N | |
| Index_priv | enum('N','Y') | NO | | N | |
| Alter_priv | enum('N','Y') | NO | | N | |
| Create_tmp_table_priv | enum('N','Y') | NO | | N | |
| Lock_tables_priv | enum('N','Y') | NO | | N | |
| Create_view_priv | enum('N','Y') | NO | | N | |
| Show_view_priv | enum('N','Y') | NO | | N | |
| Create_routine_priv | enum('N','Y') | NO | | N | |
| Alter_routine_priv | enum('N','Y') | NO | | N | |
| Execute_priv | enum('N','Y') | NO | | N | |
+-----------------------+---------------+------+-----+---------+-------+
20 rows in set (0.01 sec)
Here is mysql.user from MySQL 5.0.45
mysql> desc mysql.user;
+-----------------------+-----------------------------------+------+-----+---------+-------+
| Field | Type | Null | Key | Default | Extra |
+-----------------------+-----------------------------------+------+-----+---------+-------+
| Host | char(60) | NO | PRI | | |
| User | char(16) | NO | PRI | | |
| Password | char(41) | NO | | | |
| Select_priv | enum('N','Y') | NO | | N | |
| Insert_priv | enum('N','Y') | NO | | N | |
| Update_priv | enum('N','Y') | NO | | N | |
| Delete_priv | enum('N','Y') | NO | | N | |
| Create_priv | enum('N','Y') | NO | | N | |
| Drop_priv | enum('N','Y') | NO | | N | |
| Reload_priv | enum('N','Y') | NO | | N | |
| Shutdown_priv | enum('N','Y') | NO | | N | |
| Process_priv | enum('N','Y') | NO | | N | |
| File_priv | enum('N','Y') | NO | | N | |
| Grant_priv | enum('N','Y') | NO | | N | |
| References_priv | enum('N','Y') | NO | | N | |
| Index_priv | enum('N','Y') | NO | | N | |
| Alter_priv | enum('N','Y') | NO | | N | |
| Show_db_priv | enum('N','Y') | NO | | N | |
| Super_priv | enum('N','Y') | NO | | N | |
| Create_tmp_table_priv | enum('N','Y') | NO | | N | |
| Lock_tables_priv | enum('N','Y') | NO | | N | |
| Execute_priv | enum('N','Y') | NO | | N | |
| Repl_slave_priv | enum('N','Y') | NO | | N | |
| Repl_client_priv | enum('N','Y') | NO | | N | |
| Create_view_priv | enum('N','Y') | NO | | N | |
| Show_view_priv | enum('N','Y') | NO | | N | |
| Create_routine_priv | enum('N','Y') | NO | | N | |
| Alter_routine_priv | enum('N','Y') | NO | | N | |
| Create_user_priv | enum('N','Y') | NO | | N | |
| ssl_type | enum('','ANY','X509','SPECIFIED') | NO | | | |
| ssl_cipher | blob | NO | | | |
| x509_issuer | blob | NO | | | |
| x509_subject | blob | NO | | | |
| max_questions | int(11) unsigned | NO | | 0 | |
| max_updates | int(11) unsigned | NO | | 0 | |
| max_connections | int(11) unsigned | NO | | 0 | |
| max_user_connections | int(11) unsigned | NO | | 0 | |
+-----------------------+-----------------------------------+------+-----+---------+-------+
37 rows in set (0.00 sec)
As shown, SUPER is not a DB specific privilege. It is a DBA privilege.
What you presented is essentially the correct way for interrupting triggers in MySQL 5.1
I wrote about this before
You cannot do Dynamic SQL in triggers.
You may have to resort to coding the my_signal
like this:
CREATE PROCEDURE `my_signal`(error_type INT)
BEGIN
IF error_type = 1 THEN
UPDATE `Error: can not insert new OWNER !` set x=1;
END IF;
IF error_type = 2 THEN
UPDATE `Error: Row can not reference itself!` set x=1;
END IF;
.
.
END//
then change the trigger to look like this:
DELIMITER $$
CREATE
TRIGGER `employee_before_insert` BEFORE INSERT
ON `Employee`
FOR EACH ROW BEGIN
CASE
WHEN NEW.designation = 'OWNER' THEN
CALL my_signal(1);
WHEN NEW.SSN = NEW.MSSN THEN
CALL my_signal(2);
END CASE;
END$$
DELIMITER ;
Sorry for the clumsy programming but Signal Processing is MySQL 5.1 is horrible.
Best Answer
You can't avoid it. The restriction applies also to stored procedures. The only alternative would be to have the SUPER privilege, but I don't think it's possible in this case.
Moreover, you have to declare your function as
DETERMINISTIC
, telling explicitly that you're not going to modify data: