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>44.51. <TT
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>   The view <TT
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>pg_roles</TT
> provides access to
   information about database roles.  This is simply a publicly
   readable view of
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   that blanks out the password field.
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>   This view explicitly exposes the OID column of the underlying table,
   since that is needed to do joins to other catalogs.
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>Table 44-52. <TT
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>pg_roles</TT
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><TT
CLASS="STRUCTFIELD"
>rolname</TT
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>name</TT
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>Role name</TD
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><TT
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>rolsuper</TT
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><TT
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>bool</TT
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>Role has superuser privileges</TD
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><TT
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>rolinherit</TT
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><TT
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>bool</TT
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>Role automatically inherits privileges of roles it is a
       member of</TD
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><TT
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>rolcreaterole</TT
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><TT
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>bool</TT
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>Role can create more roles</TD
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><TT
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>rolcreatedb</TT
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><TT
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>bool</TT
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>Role can create databases</TD
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><TT
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>rolcatupdate</TT
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>bool</TT
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>       Role can update system catalogs directly.  (Even a superuser cannot do
       this unless this column is true.)
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><TT
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>rolcanlogin</TT
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>       Role can log in. That is, this role can be given as the initial
       session authorization identifier
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><TT
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>rolconnlimit</TT
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><TT
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>int4</TT
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>       For roles that can log in, this sets maximum number of concurrent
       connections this role can make.  -1 means no limit
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><TT
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>rolpassword</TT
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><TT
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>text</TT
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>Not the password (always reads as <TT
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>********</TT
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><TT
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>rolvaliduntil</TT
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><TT
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>timestamptz</TT
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>Password expiry time (only used for password authentication);
       NULL if no expiration</TD
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><TT
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>rolconfig</TT
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><TT
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>text[]</TT
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>Session defaults for run-time configuration variables</TD
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><TT
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>oid</TT
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><TT
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>oid</TT
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><TT
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><A
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>.oid</TT
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>ID of role</TD
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