<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd"> <HTML ><HEAD ><TITLE >pg_user</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 8.0.11 Documentation" HREF="index.html"><LINK REL="UP" TITLE="System Catalogs" HREF="catalogs.html"><LINK REL="PREVIOUS" TITLE="pg_tables" HREF="view-pg-tables.html"><LINK REL="NEXT" TITLE="pg_views" HREF="view-pg-views.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="2007-02-02T03:57:22"></HEAD ><BODY CLASS="SECT1" ><DIV CLASS="NAVHEADER" ><TABLE SUMMARY="Header navigation table" WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" ><TR ><TH COLSPAN="5" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="bottom" >PostgreSQL 8.0.11 Documentation</TH ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="view-pg-tables.html" ACCESSKEY="P" >Prev</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="catalogs.html" >Fast Backward</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="60%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="bottom" >Chapter 41. System Catalogs</TD ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="catalogs.html" >Fast Forward</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="view-pg-views.html" ACCESSKEY="N" >Next</A ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"></DIV ><DIV CLASS="SECT1" ><H1 CLASS="SECT1" ><A NAME="VIEW-PG-USER" >41.38. <TT CLASS="STRUCTNAME" >pg_user</TT ></A ></H1 ><A NAME="AEN55672" ></A ><P > The view <TT CLASS="STRUCTNAME" >pg_user</TT > provides access to information about database users. This is simply a publicly readable view of <A HREF="catalog-pg-shadow.html" ><TT CLASS="STRUCTNAME" >pg_shadow</TT ></A > that blanks out the password field. </P ><DIV CLASS="TABLE" ><A NAME="AEN55678" ></A ><P ><B >Table 41-38. <TT CLASS="STRUCTNAME" >pg_user</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" >usename</TT ></TD ><TD ><TT CLASS="TYPE" >name</TT ></TD ><TD > </TD ><TD >User name</TD ></TR ><TR ><TD ><TT CLASS="STRUCTFIELD" >usesysid</TT ></TD ><TD ><TT CLASS="TYPE" >int4</TT ></TD ><TD > </TD ><TD >User ID (arbitrary number used to reference this user)</TD ></TR ><TR ><TD ><TT CLASS="STRUCTFIELD" >usecreatedb</TT ></TD ><TD ><TT CLASS="TYPE" >bool</TT ></TD ><TD > </TD ><TD >User may create databases</TD ></TR ><TR ><TD ><TT CLASS="STRUCTFIELD" >usesuper</TT ></TD ><TD ><TT CLASS="TYPE" >bool</TT ></TD ><TD > </TD ><TD >User is a superuser</TD ></TR ><TR ><TD ><TT CLASS="STRUCTFIELD" >usecatupd</TT ></TD ><TD ><TT CLASS="TYPE" >bool</TT ></TD ><TD > </TD ><TD > User may update system catalogs. (Even a superuser may not do this unless this column is true.) </TD ></TR ><TR ><TD ><TT CLASS="STRUCTFIELD" >passwd</TT ></TD ><TD ><TT CLASS="TYPE" >text</TT ></TD ><TD > </TD ><TD >Not the password (always reads as <TT CLASS="LITERAL" >********</TT >)</TD ></TR ><TR ><TD ><TT CLASS="STRUCTFIELD" >valuntil</TT ></TD ><TD ><TT CLASS="TYPE" >abstime</TT ></TD ><TD > </TD ><TD >Password expiry time (only used for password authentication)</TD ></TR ><TR ><TD ><TT CLASS="STRUCTFIELD" >useconfig</TT ></TD ><TD ><TT CLASS="TYPE" >text[]</TT ></TD ><TD > </TD ><TD >Session defaults for run-time configuration variables</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="view-pg-tables.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="view-pg-views.html" ACCESSKEY="N" >Next</A ></TD ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" ><TT CLASS="STRUCTNAME" >pg_tables</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_views</TT ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ></DIV ></BODY ></HTML >