On Tue, 13 Jul 2004, Steven Bell wrote: > What is the best method to retrieve user information on a particular > database? > The JDBC DatabaseMetaData API has no provisions for returning a list of users. It does have methods for permissions like getTablePrivileges, but this isn't the same. You will likely need to issue direct sql statements against the system catalogs. See pg_user for example. Kris Jurka