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.

column type references description
rolname name   Role name
rolsuper bool   Role has superuser privileges
rolinherit bool   Role automatically inherits privileges of roles it is a member of
rolcreaterole bool   Role may create more roles
rolcreatedb bool   Role may create databases
rolcatupdate bool   Role may update system catalogs directly. (Even a superuser may not do this unless this column is true.)
rolcanlogin bool   Role may log in. That is, this role can be given as the initial session authorization identifier
rolconnlimit int4   For roles that can log in, this sets maximum number of concurrent connections this role can make. -1 means no limit
rolpassword text   Not the password (always reads as ********)
rolvaliduntil timestamptz   Password expiry time (only used for password authentication); NULL if no expiration
rolconfig text[]   Role-specific defaults for run-time configuration variables
rolresqueue oid pg_resqueue.oid Object ID of the resource queue this role is assigned to.
oid oid pg_authid.oid Object ID of role
rolcreaterextgpfd bool   Role may create readable external tables that use the gpfdist protocol.
rolcreaterexthttp bool   Role may create readable external tables that use the http protocol.
rolcreatewextgpfd bool   Role may create writable external tables that use the gpfdist protocol.
rolresgroup oid pg_resgroup.oid Object ID of the resource group to which this role is assigned.

Parent topic: System Catalogs Definitions