The view pg_roles
provides access to information about database roles. This is simply a publicly readable view of pg_authid
that blanks out the password field.
This view explicitly exposes the OID column of the underlying table, since that is needed to do joins to other catalogs.
Table 50-73. pg_roles
Columns
Name | Type | References | Description |
---|---|---|---|
rolname | name | Role name | |
rolsuper | bool | Role has superuser privileges | |
rolinherit | bool | Role automatically inherits privileges of roles it is a member of | |
rolcreaterole | bool | Role can create more roles | |
rolcreatedb | bool | Role can create databases | |
rolcanlogin | bool | Role can log in. That is, this role can be given as the initial session authorization identifier | |
rolreplication | bool | Role is a replication role. That is, this role can initiate streaming replication (see Section 26.2.5) and set/unset the system backup mode using pg_start_backup and pg_stop_backup
| |
rolconnlimit | int4 | For roles that can log in, this sets maximum number of concurrent connections this role can make. -1 means no limit. | |
rolpassword | text | Not the password (always reads as ******** ) | |
rolvaliduntil | timestamptz | Password expiry time (only used for password authentication); null if no expiration | |
rolbypassrls | bool | Role bypasses every row level security policy, see Section 5.7 for more information. | |
rolconfig | text[] | Role-specific defaults for run-time configuration variables | |
oid | oid |
| ID of role |
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