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.

Table 1. pg_catalog.pg_roles

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 integer   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 timestamp with time zone   Password expiry time (only used for password authentication); NULL if no expiration
rolconfig text[]   Session 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 boolean   Role may create readable external tables that use the gpfdist protocol.
rolcreaterexthttp boolean   Role may create readable external tables that use the http protocol.
rolcreatewextgpfd boolean   Role may create writable external tables that use the gpfdist protocol.