<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd"> <HTML ><HEAD ><TITLE >pg_init_privs</TITLE ><META NAME="GENERATOR" CONTENT="Modular DocBook HTML Stylesheet Version 1.79"><LINK REV="MADE" HREF="mailto:pgsql-docs@postgresql.org"><LINK REL="HOME" TITLE="PostgreSQL 9.6.10 Documentation" HREF="index.html"><LINK REL="UP" TITLE="System Catalogs" HREF="catalogs.html"><LINK REL="PREVIOUS" TITLE="pg_inherits" HREF="catalog-pg-inherits.html"><LINK REL="NEXT" TITLE="pg_language" HREF="catalog-pg-language.html"><LINK REL="STYLESHEET" TYPE="text/css" HREF="stylesheet.css"><META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"><META NAME="creation" CONTENT="2018-10-16T23:40:43"></HEAD ><BODY CLASS="SECT1" ><DIV CLASS="NAVHEADER" ><TABLE SUMMARY="Header navigation table" WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" ><TR ><TH COLSPAN="4" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="bottom" ><A HREF="index.html" >PostgreSQL 9.6.10 Documentation</A ></TH ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" ><A TITLE="pg_inherits" HREF="catalog-pg-inherits.html" ACCESSKEY="P" >Prev</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="catalogs.html" ACCESSKEY="U" >Up</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="60%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="bottom" >Chapter 50. 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Note that the system will automatically handle recording of the privileges during the extension script and that extension authors need only use the <TT CLASS="COMMAND" >GRANT</TT > and <TT CLASS="COMMAND" >REVOKE</TT > statements in their script to have the privileges recorded. The <TT CLASS="LITERAL" >privtype</TT > column indicates if the initial privilege was set by <SPAN CLASS="APPLICATION" >initdb</SPAN > or during a <TT CLASS="COMMAND" >CREATE EXTENSION</TT > command. </P ><P > Objects which have initial privileges set by <SPAN CLASS="APPLICATION" >initdb</SPAN > will have entries where <TT CLASS="LITERAL" >privtype</TT > is <TT CLASS="LITERAL" >'i'</TT >, while objects which have initial privileges set by <TT CLASS="COMMAND" >CREATE EXTENSION</TT > will have entries where <TT CLASS="LITERAL" >privtype</TT > is <TT CLASS="LITERAL" >'e'</TT >. </P ><DIV CLASS="TABLE" ><A NAME="AEN107826" ></A ><P ><B >Table 50-28. <TT CLASS="STRUCTNAME" >pg_init_privs</TT > Columns</B ></P ><TABLE BORDER="1" CLASS="CALSTABLE" ><COL><COL><COL><COL><THEAD ><TR ><TH >Name</TH ><TH >Type</TH ><TH >References</TH ><TH >Description</TH ></TR ></THEAD ><TBODY ><TR ><TD ><TT CLASS="STRUCTFIELD" >objoid</TT ></TD ><TD ><TT CLASS="TYPE" >oid</TT ></TD ><TD >any OID column</TD ><TD >The OID of the specific object</TD ></TR ><TR ><TD ><TT CLASS="STRUCTFIELD" >classoid</TT ></TD ><TD ><TT CLASS="TYPE" >oid</TT ></TD ><TD ><TT CLASS="LITERAL" ><A HREF="catalog-pg-class.html" ><TT CLASS="STRUCTNAME" >pg_class</TT ></A >.oid</TT ></TD ><TD >The OID of the system catalog the object is in</TD ></TR ><TR ><TD ><TT CLASS="STRUCTFIELD" >objsubid</TT ></TD ><TD ><TT CLASS="TYPE" >int4</TT ></TD ><TD > </TD ><TD > For a table column, this is the column number (the <TT CLASS="STRUCTFIELD" >objoid</TT > and <TT CLASS="STRUCTFIELD" >classoid</TT > refer to the table itself). For all other object types, this column is zero. </TD ></TR ><TR ><TD ><TT CLASS="STRUCTFIELD" >privtype</TT ></TD ><TD ><TT CLASS="TYPE" >char</TT ></TD ><TD > </TD ><TD > A code defining the type of initial privilege of this object; see text </TD ></TR ><TR ><TD ><TT CLASS="STRUCTFIELD" >initprivs</TT ></TD ><TD ><TT CLASS="TYPE" >aclitem[]</TT ></TD ><TD > </TD ><TD > The initial access privileges; see <A HREF="sql-grant.html" >GRANT</A > and <A HREF="sql-revoke.html" >REVOKE</A > for details </TD ></TR ></TBODY ></TABLE ></DIV ></DIV ><DIV CLASS="NAVFOOTER" ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"><TABLE SUMMARY="Footer navigation table" WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="catalog-pg-inherits.html" ACCESSKEY="P" >Prev</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="index.html" ACCESSKEY="H" >Home</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="catalog-pg-language.html" ACCESSKEY="N" >Next</A ></TD ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" ><TT CLASS="STRUCTNAME" >pg_inherits</TT ></TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="catalogs.html" ACCESSKEY="U" >Up</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" ><TT CLASS="STRUCTNAME" >pg_language</TT ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ></DIV ></BODY ></HTML >