Gets the access control policy for a database or backup resource. Returns an empty policy if a database or backup exists but does not have a policy set.
Authorization requiresspanner.databases.getIamPolicypermission onresource. For backups, authorization requiresspanner.backups.getIamPolicypermission onresource. For backup schedules, authorization requiresspanner.backupSchedules.getIamPolicypermission onresource.
REQUIRED: The Cloud Spanner resource for which the policy is being retrieved. The format isprojects/<project ID>/instances/<instance ID>for instance resources andprojects/<project ID>/instances/<instance ID>/databases/<database ID>for database resources.
Request body
The request body contains data with the following structure:
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