Updated on 2024-10-14 GMT+08:00

PG_ROLES

PG_ROLES provides information about database roles. Initialization users and users with the sysadmin or createrole attribute can view information about all roles. Other users can view only their own information.

Table 1 PG_ROLES columns

Name

Type

Reference

Description

rolname

name

N/A

Role name

rolsuper

boolean

N/A

Whether the role is the initial system administrator with the highest permission

  • t (true): yes
  • f (false): no

rolinherit

boolean

N/A

Whether the role inherits the permissions for this type of roles

  • t (true): yes
  • f (false): no

rolcreaterole

boolean

N/A

Whether the role can create other roles

  • t (true): yes
  • f (false): no

rolcreatedb

boolean

N/A

Whether the role can create databases

  • t (true): yes
  • f (false): no

rolcatupdate

boolean

N/A

Whether the role can update system tables directly. Only the initial system administrator whose usesysid is 10 has this permission. It is unavailable for other users.

  • t (true): yes
  • f (false): no

rolcanlogin

boolean

N/A

Whether the role can log in to the database

  • t (true): yes
  • f (false): no

rolreplication

boolean

N/A

Whether the role can be replicated

  • t (true): yes
  • f (false): no

rolauditadmin

boolean

N/A

Whether the role is an audit system administrator

  • t (true): yes
  • f (false): no

rolsystemadmin

boolean

N/A

Whether the role is a system administrator

  • t (true): yes
  • f (false): no

rolconnlimit

integer

N/A

Sets the maximum number of concurrent connections that this role can initiate if this role can log in. The value –1 indicates no limit.

rolpassword

text

N/A

Not the password (always reads as ********)

rolvalidbegin

timestamp with time zone

N/A

Start time for account validity (NULL if start time is not specified).

rolvaliduntil

timestamp with time zone

N/A

End time for account validity (NULL if end time is not specified).

rolrespool

name

N/A

Resource pool that a user can use

rolparentid

oid

rolparentid in PG_AUTHID

OID of a group user to which the user belongs

roltabspace

text

N/A

Storage space of the user permanent table

rolconfig

text[]

N/A

Session defaults for runtime configuration variables

oid

oid

OID in PG_AUTHID

Role ID

roluseft

boolean

roluseft in PG_AUTHID

Whether the role can perform operations on foreign tables

  • t (true): yes
  • f (false): no

rolkind

"char"

N/A

Role type

nodegroup

name

N/A

Name of the logical cluster associated with the role. (The current feature is a lab feature. Contact Huawei technical support before using it.) If no logical cluster is associated, this column is left empty.

roltempspace

text

N/A

Storage space of the user temporary table, in KB

rolspillspace

text

N/A

Operator disk spill space of the user, in KB

rolmonitoradmin

boolean

N/A

Whether the role is a monitor administrator

  • t (true): yes
  • f (false): no

roloperatoradmin

boolean

N/A

Whether the role is an O&M administrator

  • t (true): yes
  • f (false): no

rolpolicyadmin

boolean

N/A

Whether the role is a security policy administrator

  • t (true): yes
  • f (false): no