What is a PostgreSQL table owner?

Question

I am unsure about what does a PostgreSQL table owner means. I notice that it changes an attribute of the table itself and not about the owner because it is specified through an

ALTER TABLE table_name OWNER TO role_name;

question from:https://stackoverflow.com/questions/33841647/what-is-a-postgresql-table-owner

Answer 1

You can see who is owner in certain table:

select * from pg_tables where tablename = 'my_tbl';

or you can see all tables by certain owner:

select * from pg_tables where tableowner = 'username';