II. 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.
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- clusterdb -- cluster a
PostgreSQL database
- createdb -- create a new
PostgreSQL database
- createlang -- install a
PostgreSQL procedural
language
- createuser -- define a
new PostgreSQL user
account
- dropdb -- remove a
PostgreSQL database
- droplang -- remove a
PostgreSQL procedural
language
- dropuser -- remove a
PostgreSQL user
account
- ecpg -- embedded SQL C
preprocessor
- pg_basebackup -- take
a base backup of a PostgreSQL cluster
- 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_receivexlog -- streams
transaction logs from a PostgreSQL cluster
- pg_restore -- restore a
PostgreSQL database from
an archive file created by pg_dump
- psql -- PostgreSQL interactive terminal
- reindexdb -- reindex a
PostgreSQL database
- vacuumdb -- garbage-collect
and analyze a PostgreSQL
database
