51.81. pg_roles

51.81. `pg_roles`
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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.

Table 51.82. pg_roles Columns

Name	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 can create more roles
`rolcreatedb`	`bool`		Role can create databases
`rolcanlogin`	`bool`		Role can log in. That is, this role can be given as the initial session authorization identifier
`rolreplication`	`bool`		Role is a replication role. A replication role can initiate replication connections and create and drop replication slots.
`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
`rolbypassrls`	`bool`		Role bypasses every row level security policy, see Section 5.7 for more information.
`rolconfig`	`text[]`		Role-specific defaults for run-time configuration variables
`oid`	`oid`	`pg_authid .oid`	ID of role

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