login to postgresql user
su - postgres
To enter in postgresql:-
su - postgres
psql
To create database
create database <DatabaseName>;
Create user with password
create user <username> with encrypted password 'password';
To give permission to user with database.
grant all privileges on database <databasename> to <username>;
To give superuser permission
ALTER USER username WITH SUPERUSER;
To login remotely from others place
psql -U username -h localhost -p 5432 dbname
To dump from remote server
pg_dump -U <username> -h <host-address> -p 5432 <databasename> > databasename.sql
To dump postgres database
pg_dump databasename > dbname.sql
To restore db dump
psql databasename < path-dbname.sql
database dump of single table
pg_dump -d <database_name> -t <table_name> > file.sql
and to restore single table
psql -h localhost -U postgres -p 5432 database < path/to/store/name.sql
Postgres schema only dump
pg_dump -U postgres -s postgres > exportFile.sql
Postgres schema only with specific table
pg_dump -s -t tablename databasename > dump.sql
Login directly to postgres
sudo -u postgres psql
To drop database with force
DROP DATABASE <database-name> WITH (FORCE);
To list database
\c dbname | Switch connection to a new database |
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\l | List available databases |
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\dt | List available tables |
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\d table_name | Describe a table such as a column, type, modifiers of columns, etc. |
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\dn | List all schemes of the currently connected database |
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\df | List available functions in the current database |
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\dv | List available views in the current database |
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\du | List all users and their assign roles |
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SELECT version(); | Retrieve the current version of PostgreSQL server |
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\g | Execute the last command again |
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\s | Display command history |
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\s filename | Save the command history to a file |
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\i filename | Execute psql commands from a file |
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\? | Know all available psql commands |
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\h | Get help | Eg:to get detailed information on ALTER TABLE statement use the \h ALTER TABLE |
\e | Edit command in your own editor |
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\a | Switch from aligned to non-aligned column output |
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\H | Switch the output to HTML format |
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\q | Exit psql shell |
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Creating Extensions
CREATE EXTENSION <extension_name>;
Make sure you switch to specified databases and enable extension and install necessary packages before enabling
You can also check below options in Postgres
Usage:
pg_dump [OPTION]... [DBNAME]
General options:
-f, --file=FILENAME output file or directory name
-F, --format=c|d|t|p output file format (custom, directory, tar,
plain text (default))
-j, --jobs=NUM use this many parallel jobs to dump
-v, --verbose verbose mode
-V, --version output version information, then exit
-Z, --compress=0-9 compression level for compressed formats
--lock-wait-timeout=TIMEOUT fail after waiting TIMEOUT for a table lock
-?, --help show this help, then exit
Options controlling the output content:
-a, --data-only dump only the data, not the schema
-b, --blobs include large objects in dump
-c, --clean clean (drop) database objects before recreating
-C, --create include commands to create database in dump
-E, --encoding=ENCODING dump the data in encoding ENCODING
-n, --schema=SCHEMA dump the named schema(s) only
-N, --exclude-schema=SCHEMA do NOT dump the named schema(s)
-o, --oids include OIDs in dump
-O, --no-owner skip restoration of object ownership in
plain-text format
-s, --schema-only dump only the schema, no data
-S, --superuser=NAME superuser user name to use in plain-text format
-t, --table=TABLE dump the named table(s) only
-T, --exclude-table=TABLE do NOT dump the named table(s)
-x, --no-privileges do not dump privileges (grant/revoke)
--binary-upgrade for use by upgrade utilities only
--column-inserts dump data as INSERT commands with column names
--disable-dollar-quoting disable dollar quoting, use SQL standard quoting
--disable-triggers disable triggers during data-only restore
--enable-row-security enable row security (dump only content user has
access to)
--exclude-table-data=TABLE do NOT dump data for the named table(s)
--if-exists use IF EXISTS when dropping objects
--inserts dump data as INSERT commands, rather than COPY
--no-security-labels do not dump security label assignments
--no-synchronized-snapshots do not use synchronized snapshots in parallel jobs
--no-tablespaces do not dump tablespace assignments
--no-unlogged-table-data do not dump unlogged table data
--quote-all-identifiers quote all identifiers, even if not key words
--section=SECTION dump named section (pre-data, data, or post-data)
--serializable-deferrable wait until the dump can run without anomalies
--snapshot=SNAPSHOT use given snapshot for the dump
--strict-names require table and/or schema include patterns to
match at least one entity each
--use-set-session-authorization
use SET SESSION AUTHORIZATION commands instead of
ALTER OWNER commands to set ownership
Connection options:
-d, --dbname=DBNAME database to dump
-h, --host=HOSTNAME database server host or socket directory
-p, --port=PORT database server port number
-U, --username=NAME connect as specified database user
-w, --no-password never prompt for password
-W, --password force password prompt (should happen automatically)
--role=ROLENAME do SET ROLE before dump
If no database name is supplied, then the PGDATABASE environment
variable value is used.