pg_authid

The pg_authid table contains information about database authorization identifiers (roles). A role subsumes the concepts of users and groups. A user is a role with the rolcanlogin flag set. Any role (with or without rolcanlogin) may have other roles as members. See pg_auth_members.

Since this catalog contains passwords, it must not be publicly readable. pg_roles is a publicly readable view on pg_authid that blanks out the password field.

Because user identities are system-wide, pg_authid is shared across all databases in a HAWQ system: there is only one copy of pg_authid per system, not one per database.

Table 1. pg_catalog.pg_authid

column type references description
rolname name   Role name
rolsuper boolean   Role has superuser privileges
rolinherit boolean   Role automatically inherits privileges of roles it is a member of
rolcreaterole boolean   Role may create more roles
rolcreatedb boolean   Role may create databases
rolcatupdate boolean   Role may update system catalogs directly. (Even a superuser may not do this unless this column is true)
rolcanlogin boolean   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   Password (possibly encrypted); NULL if none
rolvaliduntil timestamptz   Password expiry time (only used for password authentication); NULL if no expiration
rolconfig text[]   Session defaults for server configuration parameters
relresqueue oid   Object ID of the associated resource queue ID in pg_resqueue
rolcreaterextgpfd boolean   Privilege to create read external tables with the gpfdist or gpfdists protocol
rolcreaterexhttp boolean   Privilege to create read external tables with the http protocol
rolcreatewextgpfd boolean   Privilege to create write external tables with the gpfdist or gpfdists protocol
rolcreaterexthdfs boolean   Privilege to create read external tables with the gphdfs protocol. (gphdfs is deprecated.)
rolcreatewexthdfs boolean   Privilege to create write external tables with the gphdfs protocol. (gphdfs is deprecated.)