FWIW: I (@rondy) am not the creator of the content shared here, which is an excerpt from Edmond Lau's book. I simply copied and pasted it from another location and saved it as a personal note, before it gained popularity on news.ycombinator.com. Unfortunately, I cannot recall the exact origin of the original source, nor was I able to find the author's name, so I am can't provide the appropriate credits.
This is a collection of the most common commands I run while administering Postgres databases. The variables shown between the open and closed tags, "<" and ">", should be replaced with a name you choose. Postgres has multiple shortcut functions, starting with a forward slash, "". Any SQL command that is not a shortcut, must end with a semicolon, ";". You can use the keyboard UP and DOWN keys to scroll the history of previous commands you've run.
http://www.postgresql.org/download/linux/ubuntu/ https://help.ubuntu.com/community/PostgreSQL
| #!/usr/bin/python | |
| import csv | |
| import math | |
| import multiprocessing | |
| import os | |
| import sys | |
| import tempfile | |
| READ_BUFFER = 2**13 |
Magic words:
psql -U postgresSome interesting flags (to see all, use -h or --help depending on your psql version):
-E: will describe the underlaying queries of the \ commands (cool for learning!)-l: psql will list all databases and then exit (useful if the user you connect with doesn't has a default database, like at AWS RDS)