Catalogs

You can use the information_schema.catalogs view to get information about catalogs (databases in SQL terminology). You can use a SELECT query to return information about each database as shown in the example below. In order to view catalog information, you must have catalog privileges or have ownership of the catalog object.

SELECT
  *
FROM
  information_schema.catalogs;

Columns in information_schema.catalogs

Each row has the following columns with information about the database.

Column Name	Data Type	Description
catalog_name	TEXT	Name of the database.
default_collation	TEXT	Always ‘POSIX’.
default_character_set	TEXT	Always ‘UTF-8’.
description	TEXT	The description of the database.
created	TIMESTAMPTZ	The time the database was created.
ddl	TEXT	The text of the SQL statement that created the database.
catalog_owner	TEXT	The owner of the database, `NULL` if there is none.
last_altered	TIMESTAMPTZ	Time the database was last altered.
last_altered_by	TEXT	Name of the last user to alter the database.

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