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FUNCTIONS / SYSTEM INFORMATION FUNCTIONS AND OPERATORS

has_column_privilege

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Does user have privilege for the specified table column? This succeeds either if the privilege is held for the whole table, or if there is a column-level grant of the privilege for the column.

Signatures & examples

has_column_privilege ( [ user name or oid, ] table text or oid, column text or smallint, privilege text ) → boolean
Does user have privilege for the specified table column? This succeeds either if the privilege is held for the whole table, or if there is a column-level grant of the privilege for the column. The column can be specified by name or by attribute number (pg_attribute.attnum). Allowable privilege types are SELECT, INSERT, UPDATE, and REFERENCES.
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  1. PG 12 → 13changed

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