dba_tab_privs references on custom roles

[da808wiz]

Hi,

I'm wondering why the REFERENCES privilege for a user defined role does not appear in the DBA_TAB_PRIVS table?

example:

create role mycustomrole identified by mycustomrole;
grant references on theowner.thetable to mycustomrole;
grant alter on theowner.thetable to mycustomrole;
grant mycustomrole to myuser1;
grant references on theowner.thetable to myuser2;

select owner,table_name,privilege,grantee from dba_tab_privs where owner='THEOWNER';

OWNER      TABLE_NAME PRIVILEGE  GRANTEE
---------- ---------- ---------- ------------
THEOWNER   THETABLE   REFERENCES MYUSER2
THEOWNER   THETABLE   ALTER      MYCUSTOMROLE

Note mycustomrole does not show up.

Am I looking in the wrong place?

FYI, I am running Oracle 10g, if that matters.

Thanks