diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/information_schema.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/information_schema.sgml
index d8e42e4f630..df806a3c853 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/information_schema.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/information_schema.sgml
@@ -3839,7 +3839,7 @@ ORDER BY c.ordinal_position;
      <row>
       <entry><literal>object_type</literal></entry>
       <entry><type>character_data</type></entry>
-      <entry><literal>COLLATION</literal> or <literal>DOMAIN</literal> or <literal>FOREIGN DATA WRAPPER</literal> or <literal>FOREIGN SERVER</literal></entry>
+      <entry><literal>COLLATION</literal> or <literal>DOMAIN</literal> or <literal>FOREIGN DATA WRAPPER</literal> or <literal>FOREIGN SERVER</literal> or <literal>SEQUENCE</literal></entry>
      </row>
 
      <row>
@@ -5859,7 +5859,7 @@ ORDER BY c.ordinal_position;
    <literal>USAGE</literal> privileges granted on various kinds of
    objects to a currently enabled role or by a currently enabled role.
    In <productname>PostgreSQL</productname>, this currently applies to
-   collations, domains, foreign-data wrappers, and foreign servers.  There is one
+   collations, domains, foreign-data wrappers, foreign servers, and sequences.  There is one
    row for each combination of object, grantor, and grantee.
   </para>
 
@@ -5871,6 +5871,13 @@ ORDER BY c.ordinal_position;
    object types, however, show real privileges.
   </para>
 
+  <para>
+   In PostgreSQL, sequences also support <literal>SELECT</literal>
+   and <literal>UPDATE</literal> privileges in addition to
+   the <literal>USAGE</literal> privilege.  These are nonstandard and therefore
+   not visible in the information schema.
+  </para>
+
   <table>
    <title><literal>usage_privileges</literal> Columns</title>
 
@@ -5918,7 +5925,7 @@ ORDER BY c.ordinal_position;
      <row>
       <entry><literal>object_type</literal></entry>
       <entry><type>character_data</type></entry>
-      <entry><literal>COLLATION</literal> or <literal>DOMAIN</literal> or <literal>FOREIGN DATA WRAPPER</literal> or <literal>FOREIGN SERVER</literal></entry>
+      <entry><literal>COLLATION</literal> or <literal>DOMAIN</literal> or <literal>FOREIGN DATA WRAPPER</literal> or <literal>FOREIGN SERVER</literal> or <literal>SEQUENCE</literal></entry>
      </row>
 
      <row>
diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/ref/grant.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/ref/grant.sgml
index c5edaed153a..05f98bb6bb5 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/ref/grant.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/ref/grant.sgml
@@ -642,6 +642,18 @@ GRANT admins TO joe;
     translations.
    </para>
 
+   <para>
+    In the SQL standard, sequences only have a <literal>USAGE</literal>
+    privilege, which controls the use of the <literal>NEXT VALUE FOR</literal>
+    expression, which is equivalent to the
+    function <function>nextval</function> in PostgreSQL.  The sequence
+    privileges <literal>SELECT</literal> and <literal>UPDATE</literal> are
+    PostgreSQL extensions.  The application of the
+    sequence <literal>USAGE</literal> privilege to
+    the <literal>currval</literal> function is also a PostgreSQL extension (as
+    is the function itself).
+   </para>
+
    <para>
     Privileges on databases, tablespaces, schemas, and languages are
     <productname>PostgreSQL</productname> extensions.
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/information_schema.sql b/src/backend/catalog/information_schema.sql
index f591f64caf7..c4f8f0f4eaa 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/information_schema.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/information_schema.sql
@@ -2212,6 +2212,43 @@ CREATE VIEW usage_privileges AS
     WHERE u_grantor.oid = srv.grantor
           AND grantee.oid = srv.grantee
           AND srv.prtype IN ('USAGE')
+          AND (pg_has_role(u_grantor.oid, 'USAGE')
+               OR pg_has_role(grantee.oid, 'USAGE')
+               OR grantee.rolname = 'PUBLIC')
+
+    UNION ALL
+
+    /* sequences */
+    SELECT CAST(u_grantor.rolname AS sql_identifier) AS grantor,
+           CAST(grantee.rolname AS sql_identifier) AS grantee,
+           CAST(current_database() AS sql_identifier) AS object_catalog,
+           CAST(n.nspname AS sql_identifier) AS object_schema,
+           CAST(c.relname AS sql_identifier) AS object_name,
+           CAST('SEQUENCE' AS character_data) AS object_type,
+           CAST('USAGE' AS character_data) AS privilege_type,
+           CAST(
+             CASE WHEN
+                  -- object owner always has grant options
+                  pg_has_role(grantee.oid, c.relowner, 'USAGE')
+                  OR c.grantable
+                  THEN 'YES' ELSE 'NO' END AS yes_or_no) AS is_grantable
+
+    FROM (
+            SELECT oid, relname, relnamespace, relkind, relowner, (aclexplode(coalesce(relacl, acldefault('r', relowner)))).* FROM pg_class
+         ) AS c (oid, relname, relnamespace, relkind, relowner, grantor, grantee, prtype, grantable),
+         pg_namespace n,
+         pg_authid u_grantor,
+         (
+           SELECT oid, rolname FROM pg_authid
+           UNION ALL
+           SELECT 0::oid, 'PUBLIC'
+         ) AS grantee (oid, rolname)
+
+    WHERE c.relnamespace = n.oid
+          AND c.relkind = 'S'
+          AND c.grantee = grantee.oid
+          AND c.grantor = u_grantor.oid
+          AND c.prtype IN ('USAGE')
           AND (pg_has_role(u_grantor.oid, 'USAGE')
                OR pg_has_role(grantee.oid, 'USAGE')
                OR grantee.rolname = 'PUBLIC');