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pg_roles

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.

columntypereferencesdescription
rolnamenameRole name
rolsuperboolRole has superuser privileges
rolinheritboolRole automatically inherits privileges of roles it is a member of
rolcreateroleboolRole may create more roles
rolcreatedbboolRole may create databases
rolcatupdateboolRole may update system catalogs directly. (Even a superuser may not do this unless this column is true.)
rolcanloginboolRole may log in. That is, this role can be given as the initial session authorization identifier
rolconnlimitint4For roles that can log in, this sets maximum number of concurrent connections this role can make. -1 means no limit
rolpasswordtextNot the password (always reads as ********)
rolvaliduntiltimestamptzPassword expiry time (only used for password authentication); NULL if no expiration
rolconfigtext[]Role-specific defaults for run-time configuration variables
rolresqueueoidpg_resqueue.oidObject ID of the resource queue this role is assigned to.
oidoidpg_authid.oidObject ID of role
rolcreaterextgpfdboolRole may create readable external tables that use the gpfdist protocol.
rolcreaterexthttpboolRole may create readable external tables that use the http protocol.
rolcreatewextgpfdboolRole may create writable external tables that use the gpfdist protocol.
rolresgroupoidpg_resgroup.oidObject ID of the resource group to which this role is assigned.

Parent topic: System Catalogs Definitions