PostgreSQL Client Applications#
PostgreSQL Client Applications
This part contains reference information for Tantor BE 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 Tantor BE database
- createdb — create a new Tantor BE database
- createuser — define a new Tantor BE user account
- dropdb — remove a Tantor BE database
- dropuser — remove a Tantor BE user account
- ecpg — embedded SQL C preprocessor
- pg_amcheck — checks for corruption in one or more Tantor BE databases
- pg_basebackup — take a base backup of a Tantor BE cluster
- pgbench — run a benchmark test on Tantor BE
- pg_config — retrieve information about the installed version of Tantor BE
- pg_dump — extract a Tantor BE database into a script file or other archive file
- pg_dumpall — extract a Tantor BE database cluster into a script file
- pg_isready — check the connection status of a Tantor BE server
- pg_receivewal — stream write-ahead logs from a Tantor BE server
- pg_recvlogical — control Tantor BE logical decoding streams
- pg_restore — restore a Tantor BE database from an archive file created by pg_dump
- pg_verifybackup — verify the integrity of a base backup of a Tantor BE cluster
- psql — Tantor BE interactive terminal
- reindexdb — reindex a Tantor BE database
- vacuumdb — garbage-collect and analyze a Tantor BE database