Comments on: 15 Practical PostgreSQL Database Administration Commands

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 21 Sep 2011 05:50:36 +0000

this is very useful for me

By: NR

NR — Thu, 12 Aug 2010 02:54:43 +0000

Some clarifications:
\d gaves you more then just tables, to see only tables use \dt. To see views use \dv, to see a table or any other object’s description use \d objectname. You can use \? to see a list of commands and \? commandname to get help with a command. The same way you can use \h to see a list of SQL commands and \h sqlcommand to get help with a SQL command.

Be aware that a simple create database command will create a database with default parameters, this is not always what we want or need. Usually it is ok for english speakers but other languages migth need a different collating order or even encoding, as the default postgresql installation does not (or did not) use UTF-8. To change this and other parameters in a safe and permanent way you migth need to create a all new database cluster as some parameters cannot be changed after database creation and others have to be common to all databases (see http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.4/interactive/locale.html for postgreSQL 8.4).

Has for the Karel’s problem, simply use ‘q’ to quit the viewing and came back to the prompt.

By: markitus82

markitus82 — Tue, 18 May 2010 16:03:13 +0000

thanks! nice guide!

By: karel

karel — Wed, 28 Apr 2010 08:59:49 +0000

after using
\d
i get list of the tables ,and highlighted
(END)

i cannot enter any text or command. How to exit the description and input next commands?

By: mike

mike — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 04:41:28 +0000

very useful for beginners like me. Thanks.

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By: sasikala

sasikala — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 04:20:07 +0000

It is very simple but more useful. thanks.