https://community.cloudera.com/t5/Support-Questions/Phoenix-security-and-initial-system-table-creation/m-p/155366#M117805 <P>Your understanding is correct. Phoenix delegates to HBase permissions. Secondary index tables would require their own grants as well, yes. They are just another HBase table.</P><P>Yes, you have the steps correct regarding the superuser creating the tables and performing grants.</P><P>The namespace support actually appears to have landed in 4.8, but this was included in HDP-2.5 which was based on Phoenix 4.7 (the feature was backported) <A href="https://phoenix.apache.org/namspace_mapping.html">https://phoenix.apache.org/namspace_mapping.html</A></P> Sat, 29 Oct 2016 05:13:49 GMT elserj 2016-10-29T05:13:49Z