System catalog tables - Amazon Redshift
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System catalog tables

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The system catalogs store schema metadata, such as information about tables and columns. System catalog tables have a PG prefix.

The standard PostgreSQL catalog tables are accessible to Amazon Redshift users. For more information about PostgreSQL system catalogs, see PostgreSQL system tables