45.1. Overview

Note: The following description applies both to Postgres-XC and PostgreSQL if not described explicitly.

Table 45-1 lists the system catalogs. More detailed documentation of each catalog follows below.

Most system catalogs are copied from the template database during database creation and are thereafter database-specific. A few catalogs are physically shared across all databases in a cluster; these are noted in the descriptions of the individual catalogs.

Table 45-1. System Catalogs

Catalog NamePurpose
pg_aggregateaggregate functions
pg_amindex access methods
pg_amopaccess method operators
pg_amprocaccess method support procedures
pg_attrdefcolumn default values
pg_attributetable columns ("attributes")
pg_authidauthorization identifiers (roles)
pg_auth_membersauthorization identifier membership relationships
pg_castcasts (data type conversions)
pg_classtables, indexes, sequences, views ("relations")
pg_constraintcheck constraints, unique constraints, primary key constraints, foreign key constraints
pg_collationcollations (locale information)
pg_conversionencoding conversion information
pg_databasedatabases within this database cluster
pg_db_role_settingper-role and per-database settings
pg_default_acldefault privileges for object types
pg_dependdependencies between database objects
pg_descriptiondescriptions or comments on database objects
pg_enumenum label and value definitions
pg_extensioninstalled extensions
pg_foreign_data_wrapperforeign-data wrapper definitions
pg_foreign_serverforeign server definitions
pg_foreign_tableadditional foreign table information
pg_indexadditional index information
pg_inheritstable inheritance hierarchy
pg_languagelanguages for writing functions
pg_largeobjectdata pages for large objects
pg_largeobject_metadatametadata for large objects
pg_namespaceschemas
pg_opclassaccess method operator classes
pg_operatoroperators
pg_opfamilyaccess method operator families
pg_pltemplatetemplate data for procedural languages
pg_procfunctions and procedures
pg_rewritequery rewrite rules
pg_seclabelsecurity labels on database objects
pg_shdependdependencies on shared objects
pg_shdescriptioncomments on shared objects
pg_statisticplanner statistics
pg_tablespacetablespaces within this database cluster
pg_triggertriggers
pg_ts_configtext search configurations
pg_ts_config_maptext search configurations' token mappings
pg_ts_dicttext search dictionaries
pg_ts_parsertext search parsers
pg_ts_templatetext search templates
pg_typedata types
pg_user_mappingmappings of users to foreign servers
pgxc_classreplication or distribution information of tables (Postgres-XC only)
pgxc_nodePostgres-XC cluster nodes (Postgres-XC only)
pgxc_groupPostgres-XC cluster node groups (Postgres-XC only)