Today I learned about GRANT REFERENCES. In years of SQL admin and dev work I never heard about it and never had issues with it.
quote from MySQL 5.7 Reference Manual / GRANT Syntax
REFERENCES Enable foreign key creation. Levels: Global, database, table, column.
quote from PostgreSQL 9.6 / GRANT
REFERENCES To create a foreign key constraint, it is necessary to have this privilege on both the referencing and referenced columns. The privilege may be granted for all columns of a table, or just specific columns.
is GRANT REFERENCES only about creating a foreign key constraint? In what business case does it make sense to forbid creating a foreign key constraint (but allow to create tables)? Can you give me real world examples?
