Redshift - Grant users access to system tables

Question

Hi,

As a superuser, I'm trying to grant a non-superuser access to system tables. 
I tried running the below but no results are returned when the user ran the select query.
Am I missing anything else? Not able to find specific documentation on this.

```
ALTER USER user SYSLOG ACCESS UNRESTRICTED;
GRANT SELECT ON TABLE SVV_DATASHARE_OBJECTS TO user;

select * from SVV_DATASHARE_OBJECTS;
```

Answer

Currently, only users who have the ALTER and SHARE privileges can see the shares that they have privileges for. Therefore, SVV_DATASHARE_OBJECTS result is empty for any user that doesn't have permission on datashare, even with permission SYSLOG ACCESS UNSRESTRICTED.

As superuser, you can grant SHARE on the datashare to the user in order for the user to access the views.

Example: grant share on datashare  to ;

Once this is granted, the user should be able to view the data in SVV_DATASHARE_OBJECTS only for the datashares where access is granted.

One other workaround is to copy the data from SVV_DATASHARE_OBJECTS to a user table and grant SELECT access on this user table to the user.

Redshift - Grant users access to system tables

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