CREATE ROLE
Description
Creates a role. After a role is created, you can grant privileges to the role and then assign this role to a user or another role. This way, the privileges associated with this role are passed on to users or roles.
tip
Only users with the user_admin role has the privilege to perform this operation.
Syntax
CREATE ROLE <role_name>
Parameters
role_name: the name of the role. Naming conventions:
- It can only contain digits (0-9), letters, or underscores (_) and must start with a letter.
- It cannot exceed 64 characters in length.
Note that the created role name cannot be the same as system-defined roles.
Limits
By default, a user can have a maximum of 64 roles. You can adjust this setting by using the FE dynamic parameter privilege_max_total_roles_per_user. A role can have a maximum of 16 inheritance levels. You can adjust this setting by using the FE dynamic parameter privilege_max_role_depth.
Examples
Create a role.
CREATE ROLE role1;