stated above; instead they update continuously throughout the transaction.
</para>
+ <para>
+ Some of the information in the dynamic statistics views shown in <xref
+ linkend="monitoring-stats-dynamic-views-table"/> is security restricted.
+ Ordinary users can only see all the information about their own sessions
+ (sessions belonging to a role that they are a member of). In rows about
+ other sessions, many columns will be null. Note, however, that the
+ existence of a session and its general properties such as its sessions user
+ and database are visible to all users. Superusers and members of the
+ built-in role <literal>pg_read_all_stats</literal> (see also <xref
+ linkend="default-roles"/>) can see all the information about all sessions.
+ </para>
+
<table id="monitoring-stats-dynamic-views-table">
<title>Dynamic Statistics Views</title>