PostgreSQL

PostgreSQL Client Applications
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PostgreSQL Client Applications

This part contains reference information for PostgreSQL client applications and utilities. Not all of these commands are of general utility; some might require special privileges. The common feature of these applications is that they can be run on any host, independent of where the database server resides.

When specified on the command line, user and database names have their case preserved — the presence of spaces or special characters might require quoting. Table names and other identifiers do not have their case preserved, except where documented, and might require quoting.

Table of Contents

clusterdb — cluster a PostgreSQL database

createdb — create a new PostgreSQL database

createuser — define a new PostgreSQL user account

dropdb — remove a PostgreSQL database

dropuser — remove a PostgreSQL user account

ecpg — embedded SQL C preprocessor

pg_amcheck — checks for corruption in one or more PostgreSQL databases

pg_basebackup — take a base backup of a PostgreSQL cluster

pgbench — run a benchmark test on PostgreSQL

pg_config — retrieve information about the installed version of PostgreSQL

pg_dump — extract a PostgreSQL database into a script file or other archive file

pg_dumpall — extract a PostgreSQL database cluster into a script file

pg_isready — check the connection status of a PostgreSQL server

pg_receivewal — stream write-ahead logs from a PostgreSQL server

pg_recvlogical — control PostgreSQL logical decoding streams

pg_restore — restore a PostgreSQL database from an archive file created by pg_dump

pg_verifybackup — verify the integrity of a base backup of a PostgreSQL cluster

psql — PostgreSQL interactive terminal

reindexdb — reindex a PostgreSQL database

vacuumdb — garbage-collect and analyze a PostgreSQL database

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