The grant operation assigns access rights to users. To delegate access rights to
other users, a user must “own” these rights. The set of access rights includes
Example 5.22.1 Suppose that the user alex owns the table COURSES and
intends to grant this right to the user whose name is peter. The user alex can
accomplish this by
grant select on COURSES to peter
Now, peter has the right to query the table COURSES but he may not propagate
this right to the user ellie. In order for this to happen, alex would have to
use the directive:
grant select on COURSES to peter
with grant option