The view table_privileges identifies all privileges granted on tables or views to the current user or by the current user. There is one row for each combination of table, grantor, and grantee. Privileges granted to groups are identified in the view role_table_grants.
Table 32-33. table_privileges Columns
Name
Data Type
Description
grantor
sql_identifier
Name of the user that granted the privilege
grantee
sql_identifier
Name of the user or group that the privilege was granted to
table_catalog
sql_identifier
Name of the database that contains the table (always the current database)
table_schema
sql_identifier
Name of the schema that contains the table
table_name
sql_identifier
Name of the table
privilege_type
character_data
Type of the privilege: SELECT, DELETE, INSERT, UPDATE, REFERENCES, RULE, or TRIGGER
is_grantable
character_data
YES if the privilege is grantable, NO if not
with_hierarchy
character_data
Applies to a feature not available in PostgreSQL
Note that the column grantee makes no distinction between users and groups. If you have users and groups with the same name, there is unfortunately no way to distinguish them. A future version of PostgreSQL will possibly prohibit having users and groups with the same name.
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