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Postgres Commands

To create a database;
createdb [db-name]

To get a psql prompt;
psql [db-name]

To export table data;
pg_dump --data-only --table=table-name db-name > file-name

Following commands can be executed at psql prompt.

list all databases in postgres; \l

list all tables in a database; \d

execute a sql script; \i [sql-script]

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