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After all privilege restrictions are removed, it is possible to disable partial revokes: 

## Partial Revokes and Replication 

SET PERSIST partial_revokes = OFF; 

In replication scenarios, if partial_revokes  is enabled on any host, it must be enabled on all hosts. Otherwise, REVOKE  statements to partially revoke a global privilege do not have the same effect for all hosts on which replication occurs, potentially resulting in replication inconsistencies or errors. 

## 6.2.13 When Privilege Changes Take Effect 

If the mysqld  server is started without the --skip-grant-tables  option, it reads all grant table contents into memory during its startup sequence. The in-memory tables become effective for access control at that point. 

If you modify the grant tables indirectly using an account-management statement, the server notices these changes and loads the grant tables into memory again immediately. Account-management statements are described in Section 13.7.1, “Account Management Statements” . Examples include GRANT , REVOKE , SET PASSWORD , and RENAME USER . 

If you modify the grant tables directly using statements such as INSERT , UPDATE , or DELETE  (which is not recommended), the changes have no effect on privilege checking until you either tell the server to reload the tables or restart it. Thus, if you change the grant tables directly but forget to reload them, the changes have no effect  until you restart the server. This may leave you wondering why your changes seem to make no difference! 

To tell the server to reload the grant tables, perform a flush-privileges operation. This can be done by issuing a FLUSH PRIVILEGES  statement or by executing a mysqladmin flush-privileges  or mysqladmin reload  command. 

A grant table reload affects privileges for each existing client session as follows: 

•Table and column privilege changes take effect with the client’s next request. 

•Database privilege changes take effect the next time the client executes a USE db_name  statement. 

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## Note 

Client applications may cache the database name; thus, this effect may not be visible to them without actually changing to a different database. 

•Static global privileges and passwords are unaffected for a connected client. These changes take effect only in sessions for subsequent connections. Changes to dynamic global privileges apply immediately. For information about the differences between static and dynamic privileges, see Static Versus Dynamic Privileges.) 

Changes to the set of active roles within a session take effect immediately, for that session only. The SET ROLE  statement performs session role activation and deactivation (see Section 13.7.1.11, “SET ROLE Statement” ). 

If the server is started with the --skip-grant-tables  option, it does not read the grant tables or implement any access control. Any user can connect and perform any operation, which is insecure.  To cause a server thus started to read the tables and enable access checking, flush the privileges. 

## 6.2.14 Assigning Account Passwords 

