I want to take a DB dump from a remote server and then copy this dump to my local.
I tried couple of commands but didn't worked.
Lastly I tried the command below;
pg_dump -h 10.10.10.70 -p 5432 -U postgres -d mydb | gzip > db1.gz
I succesffully take the DB and tried with restore from Pgadmin, it gives;
pg_restore: error: input file appears to be a text format dump. Please use psql
But at this point I can't use psql, I have to use Pgadmin and not sure if I'm able to get successfully DB dump to my local. I mean I can't verify with restore.
How can I take DB dump from remote server to my local?
Thanks!
Use the "custom" format:
pg_dump -F c -h 10.10.10.70 -p 5432 -U postgres -f mydb.dmp mydb
That can be restores with pg_restore and hence with pgAdmin.
You do not have to use pgAdmin. pgAdmin uses pg_restore, and there is nothing that keeps you from using it too.
I have installed postgresql on ubuntu using:
$ sudo apt install postgresql
Now, I have a series of sql queries I would like to fire to create schemas and users and tables etc. I have put those queries in a .sql file as below:
$ sudo nano postgressetup.sql
CREATE SCHEMA schma;
CREATE USER a2i WITH PASSWORD 'password';
GRANT CONNECT ON DATABASE postgres TO schma;
This file has all the queries. I tried something like:
$ psql -U postgres -d postgres -a -f postgressetup.sql
and received error:
psql: FATAL: Peer authentication failed for user "postgres"
I want to know the way I can execute this .sql file.
Note: I've just installed postgres and no further operation is done on it. Any help is appreciated.
You can use the following command explicitly providing db context user
sudo -u postgres psql -U postgres -d postgres -a -f postgressetup.sql
I want to modify a postgresql.conf parameter through the shell. From the documentation I can see that I can use the postgres command with the -c flag.
However, on my attempt, for example,
postgres -c autovacuum=off
postgres returns:
Execution of PostgreSQL by a user with administrative permissions is not permitted.
The server must be started under an unprivileged user ID to prevent possible system security compromises. See the documentation for more information on how to properly start the server.
How can I overcome this or what is the correct procedure? Also, I don't really mind for security compromises.
Given the differences on the underlying OS, I usually prefer to do this via PostgreSQL itself, which comes handy when you're dealing with a managed service that do not give you filesystem access, like so:
sudo -u postgres psql -U postgres -d database_name -c "alter system set postgresql_parameter = 'new_value';"
As an example when I have to install TimeScaleDB extension, I can do:
sudo -u postgres psql -U postgres -d database_name -c "alter system set shared_preload_libraries = 'timescaledb';"
sudo service postgresql restart
sudo -u postgres psql -U postgres -d database_name -c "create extension if not exists timescaledb;"
I am trying to create a database from command line.
My OS is centos and postgres version is 10.9.
sudo -u postgres psql createdb test
Password for user test:
Why is it prompting me for the password?
Change the user to postgres :
su - postgres
Create User for Postgres (in the shell and NOT with psql)
$ createuser testuser
Create Database (same)
$ createdb testdb
Acces the postgres Shell
psql ( enter the password for postgressql)
Provide the privileges to the postgres user
$ alter user testuser with encrypted password 'qwerty';
$ grant all privileges on database testdb to testuser;
Try:
sudo -u postgres psql -c 'create database test;'
createdb is a command line utility which you can run from bash and not from psql. To create a database from psql, use the create database statement like so:
create database [databasename];
Note: be sure to always end your SQL statements with ;
As some of the answers point out, createdb is a command line utility that could be used to create database.
Assuming you have a user named dbuser, the following command could be used to create a database and provide access to dbuser:
createdb -h localhost -p 5432 -U dbuser testdb
Replace localhost with your correct DB host name, 5432 with correct DB port, and testdb with the database name you want to create.
Now psql could be used to connect to this newly created database:
psql -h localhost -p 5432 -U dbuser -d testdb
Tested with createdb and psql versions 9.4.15.
As the default configuration of Postgres, a user called postgres is made and the user postgres has full super admin access to entire PostgreSQL instance running on your OS.
sudo -u postgres psql
The above command gets you the psql command line interface in admin mode.
Creating user
sudo -u postgres createuser <username>
Creating Database
sudo -u postgres createdb <dbname>
NOTE: < > are not to be used while writing command, they are used just to signify the variables
PostgreSQL Create Database - Steps to create database in Postgres.
Login to server using postgres user.su - postgres
Connect to postgresql database.
bash-4.1$ psql
psql (12.1)
Type "help" for help.
postgres=#
Execute below command to create database.
CREATE DATABASE database_name;
Check for detailed information below:
https://orahow.com/postgresql-create-database/
PGPORT=5432
PGHOST="my.database.domain.com"
PGUSER="postgres"
PGDB="mydb"
createdb -h $PGHOST -p $PGPORT -U $PGUSER $PGDB
With a single command line:
su -c "createuser dbuser;createdb -h localhost -p 5432 -E UTF8 -O dbuser dbname;" - postgres
It is pretty simple but sometimes I find the answers tricky.
[For windows users]
Open Windows cmd
psql -U <username>
Once connected to psql, enter the following command to create a new database: CREATE DATABASE <database_name>;
To verify that the database has been created, you can run the \l command to list all available databases. Your new database should be listed in the output.------[Additional]------
You can now connect to the new database using the \c command followed by the database name, like this: \c <database_name>
You can now run SQL commands on the new database to create tables, insert data, and so on.
Note: Make sure to replace <username>, <database_name> with your actual Postgres username and database name.
If you are using pgAdmin:
In query editor you can try like this :
CREATE DATABASE <databasename>
WITH
OWNER = <dbowner>
ENCODING = <encoding>
CONNECTION LIMIT = <numberofsimulaneousconnections>;
an example snippet :
CREATE DATABASE twitterdb
WITH
OWNER = postgres
ENCODING = 'UTF8'
CONNECTION LIMIT = -1;
I have PostgreSql 9.3 version installed in my ubuntu 14.04 machine. I just installed the 9.4 version as well and the port it is on is 5433(by default). When i give the command psql --version, it gives me the following:
psql (PostgreSQL) 9.4.1
So far so good! Now i am trying to change my password for my postgresql 9.4 and i gave the following command:
>>sudo -u postgres -p 5433 psql
psql (9.4.1, server 9.3.6)
Type "help" for help.
postgres=# alter user postgres with password 'password';
ALTER ROLE
postgres=# \q
Now i tried connecting it on pgadmin3 but it would give me the password authentication failure. Am i doing it right?
sudo -u postgres psql -p 5433
Your -p 5433 as you write it is treated as an option for sudo, not for psql. And you've connected to Postgres 9.3 on standard port.
Try using:
>>sudo -u postgres -p 5433 psql
psql (9.4.1, server 9.3.6)
Type "help" for help.
postgres=# \password
Enter new password:
Enter it again:
postgres=#