# Postgres Roles: What to Know Before You Begin

DevFeed: [Postgres Roles: What to Know Before You Begin](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/postgres-roles-what-to-know-before-you-begin-5737.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://neon.com/blog/postgres-roles>)

Author: Daniel Price

Published: 2024-07-12T15:56:07Z

Content type: tutorial

Language: en

Sources: [Blog -- Neon Docs](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/blog-neon-docs.md>)

Topics: [Database](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/database.md>), [App](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/app.md>)

Tags: [database](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/database.md>), [developers](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/developers.md>), [guide](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/guide.md>), [postgres](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/postgres.md>)

## AI overview

A practical guide to PostgreSQL roles and privileges for application developers, explaining how roles can also serve as login-enabled users.

## Source excerpt

You're building your app on top of Postgres. Stellar idea. You've created a Postgres database, the initial tables, and even seeded the initial data. Nothing is going to stop you n... Roles. Roles will stop you now. Roles in Postgres are one of those things that look oh-so-simple fr...