This example restores the database: mydatabase using it's original name and also clears the existing database on the PostgreSQL server before restore. The --clean switch clears the existing database ...

To switch databases in PostgreSQL, you can use the \c command. This command is used to connect to a database. \c: This is the PostgreSQL command to connect to a database. my_database: This is the name ...

The pg_dump command is a utility for backing up a PostgreSQL database. It creates a consistent backup even if the database is being used concurrently the basic syntax: pg_dump -U [username] -h ...

This is likely because when I first learned it was with command-line tools, but even so, I think command-line database tools often are the best way to interact with a database manually. Two of the ...