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The view <code class="structname">pg_roles</code> provides access to
information about database roles. This is simply a publicly
readable view of
<a class="link" href="catalog-pg-authid.html" title="52.8. pg_authid"><code class="structname">pg_authid</code></a>
that blanks out the password field.
</p><p>
This view explicitly exposes the OID column of the underlying table,
since that is needed to do joins to other catalogs.
</p><div class="table" id="id-1.10.4.83.5"><p class="title"><strong>Table 52.82. <code class="structname">pg_roles</code> Columns</strong></p><div class="table-contents"><table class="table" summary="pg_roles Columns" border="1"><colgroup><col /><col /><col /><col /></colgroup><thead><tr><th>Name</th><th>Type</th><th>References</th><th>Description</th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td><code class="structfield">rolname</code></td><td><code class="type">name</code></td><td> </td><td>Role name</td></tr><tr><td><code class="structfield">rolsuper</code></td><td><code class="type">bool</code></td><td> </td><td>Role has superuser privileges</td></tr><tr><td><code class="structfield">rolinherit</code></td><td><code class="type">bool</code></td><td> </td><td>Role automatically inherits privileges of roles it is a
member of</td></tr><tr><td><code class="structfield">rolcreaterole</code></td><td><code class="type">bool</code></td><td> </td><td>Role can create more roles</td></tr><tr><td><code class="structfield">rolcreatedb</code></td><td><code class="type">bool</code></td><td> </td><td>Role can create databases</td></tr><tr><td><code class="structfield">rolcanlogin</code></td><td><code class="type">bool</code></td><td> </td><td>
Role can log in. That is, this role can be given as the initial
session authorization identifier
</td></tr><tr><td><code class="structfield">rolreplication</code></td><td><code class="type">bool</code></td><td> </td><td>
Role is a replication role. A replication role can initiate replication
connections and create and drop replication slots.
</td></tr><tr><td><code class="structfield">rolconnlimit</code></td><td><code class="type">int4</code></td><td> </td><td>
For roles that can log in, this sets maximum number of concurrent
connections this role can make. -1 means no limit.
</td></tr><tr><td><code class="structfield">rolpassword</code></td><td><code class="type">text</code></td><td> </td><td>Not the password (always reads as <code class="literal">********</code>)</td></tr><tr><td><code class="structfield">rolvaliduntil</code></td><td><code class="type">timestamptz</code></td><td> </td><td>Password expiry time (only used for password authentication);
null if no expiration</td></tr><tr><td><code class="structfield">rolbypassrls</code></td><td><code class="type">bool</code></td><td> </td><td>
Role bypasses every row level security policy, see
<a class="xref" href="ddl-rowsecurity.html" title="5.7. Row Security Policies">Section 5.7</a> for more information.
</td></tr><tr><td><code class="structfield">rolconfig</code></td><td><code class="type">text[]</code></td><td> </td><td>Role-specific defaults for run-time configuration variables</td></tr><tr><td><code class="structfield">oid</code></td><td><code class="type">oid</code></td><td><code class="literal"><a class="link" href="catalog-pg-authid.html" title="52.8. pg_authid"><code class="structname">pg_authid</code></a>.oid</code></td><td>ID of role</td></tr></tbody></table></div></div><br class="table-break" /></div><div class="navfooter"><hr /><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="view-pg-replication-slots.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="catalogs.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="view-pg-rules.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">52.80. <code class="structname">pg_replication_slots</code> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> 52.82. <code class="structname">pg_rules</code></td></tr></table></div></body></html>
