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Overview

System Views lists the system views. More detailed documentation of each catalog follows below. Except where noted, all the views described here are read-only.

Table: System Views

View Name	Purpose
`pg_aios`	In-use asynchronous IO handles
`pg_available_extensions`	available extensions
`pg_available_extension_versions`	available versions of extensions
`pg_backend_memory_contexts`	backend memory contexts
`pg_config`	compile-time configuration parameters
`pg_cursors`	open cursors
`pg_file_settings`	summary of configuration file contents
`pg_group`	groups of database users
`pg_hba_file_rules`	summary of client authentication configuration file contents
`pg_ident_file_mappings`	summary of client user name mapping configuration file contents
`pg_indexes`	indexes
`pg_locks`	locks currently held or awaited
`pg_matviews`	materialized views
`pg_policies`	policies
`pg_prepared_statements`	prepared statements
`pg_prepared_xacts`	prepared transactions
`pg_publication_tables`	publications and information of their associated tables
`pg_replication_origin_status`	information about replication origins, including replication progress
`pg_replication_slots`	replication slot information
`pg_roles`	database roles
`pg_rules`	rules
`pg_seclabels`	security labels
`pg_sequences`	sequences
`pg_settings`	parameter settings
`pg_shadow`	database users
`pg_shmem_allocations`	shared memory allocations
`pg_shmem_allocations_numa`	NUMA node mappings for shared memory allocations
`pg_stats`	planner statistics
`pg_stats_ext`	extended planner statistics
`pg_stats_ext_exprs`	extended planner statistics for expressions
`pg_tables`	tables
`pg_timezone_abbrevs`	time zone abbreviations
`pg_timezone_names`	time zone names
`pg_user`	database users
`pg_user_mappings`	user mappings
`pg_views`	views
`pg_wait_events`	wait events