Connecting through the command line

Psql is a command line program that acts as the primary front-end to a Postgresql database. It provides a number of shell commands (pg_dump to dump the content of a database, createdb to create a database, and many others). It also has a number of meta commands to list elements and display information (see the Psql cheatsheet information box). 

Psql cheatsheet: q: Quit/Exit d __table__: Show table definition, including triggers dt : List tables df: List functions dv: List views x: Pretty-format query results instead of the not-so-useful ASCII tables connect __database__: Connect to a database l: List databases Adding a + on a d command will show more results: compare, for instance, d titanic with d+ titanic ...

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