Re: Role information table name - Mailing list pgsql-sql

From Stephen Frost
Subject Re: Role information table name
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Msg-id 20200708175402.GL3125@tamriel.snowman.net
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In response to Role information table name  (Gaurav Tomar <gauravtomar14@gmail.com>)
List pgsql-sql
Greetings,

* Gaurav Tomar (gauravtomar14@gmail.com) wrote:
> Simple question -- in which table postgres store the role
> privilege information.
>
>  CREATE ROLE postgres WITH
>   LOGIN
>   SUPERUSER
>   INHERIT
>   CREATEDB
>   CREATEROLE
>   REPLICATION;
>
> in which table I can find the above information.

While this is in pg_authid, if that's all the info you want to find out,
you should probably be getting it from pg_roles (which is a view over
pg_authid), since you need to be GRANT'd access to pg_authid unless
you're a superuser.

Thanks,

Stephen

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