On Fri, Jan 4, 2013 at 1:55 PM, Aaron Halfaker <aaron.halfaker@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I've been working on a new script that will access the MySQL database.  In
> testing this script, I was worried about the complexity of some of my
> queries, so I naturally went to the MySQL client and ran them with
> "explain".  It appears that I do not have permission to do so.  Is this
> intended?  Is something wrong?

EXPLAIN can leak information from underlying tables, so if you dont
have permissions for those tables the explain will fail with the error
message provided.

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