\documentclass[10pt,a4paper]{article} % Packages \usepackage{fancyhdr} % For header and footer \usepackage{multicol} % Allows multicols in tables \usepackage{tabularx} % Intelligent column widths \usepackage{tabulary} % Used in header and footer \usepackage{hhline} % Border under tables \usepackage{graphicx} % For images \usepackage{xcolor} % For hex colours %\usepackage[utf8x]{inputenc} % For unicode character support \usepackage[T1]{fontenc} % Without this we get weird character replacements \usepackage{colortbl} % For coloured tables \usepackage{setspace} % For line height \usepackage{lastpage} % Needed for total page number \usepackage{seqsplit} % Splits long words. %\usepackage{opensans} % Can't make this work so far. Shame. Would be lovely. \usepackage[normalem]{ulem} % For underlining links % Most of the following are not required for the majority % of cheat sheets but are needed for some symbol support. \usepackage{amsmath} % Symbols \usepackage{MnSymbol} % Symbols \usepackage{wasysym} % Symbols %\usepackage[english,german,french,spanish,italian]{babel} % Languages % Document Info \author{Bersania} \pdfinfo{ /Title (postgresql-installation-on-ubuntu.pdf) /Creator (Cheatography) /Author (Bersania) /Subject (PostgreSQL Installation on Ubuntu Cheat Sheet) } % Lengths and widths \addtolength{\textwidth}{6cm} \addtolength{\textheight}{-1cm} \addtolength{\hoffset}{-3cm} \addtolength{\voffset}{-2cm} \setlength{\tabcolsep}{0.2cm} % Space between columns \setlength{\headsep}{-12pt} % Reduce space between header and content \setlength{\headheight}{85pt} % If less, LaTeX automatically increases it \renewcommand{\footrulewidth}{0pt} % Remove footer line \renewcommand{\headrulewidth}{0pt} % Remove header line \renewcommand{\seqinsert}{\ifmmode\allowbreak\else\-\fi} % Hyphens in seqsplit % This two commands together give roughly % the right line height in the tables \renewcommand{\arraystretch}{1.3} \onehalfspacing % Commands \newcommand{\SetRowColor}[1]{\noalign{\gdef\RowColorName{#1}}\rowcolor{\RowColorName}} % Shortcut for row colour \newcommand{\mymulticolumn}[3]{\multicolumn{#1}{>{\columncolor{\RowColorName}}#2}{#3}} % For coloured multi-cols \newcolumntype{x}[1]{>{\raggedright}p{#1}} % New column types for ragged-right paragraph columns \newcommand{\tn}{\tabularnewline} % Required as custom column type in use % Font and Colours \definecolor{HeadBackground}{HTML}{333333} \definecolor{FootBackground}{HTML}{666666} \definecolor{TextColor}{HTML}{333333} \definecolor{DarkBackground}{HTML}{474747} \definecolor{LightBackground}{HTML}{F3F3F3} \renewcommand{\familydefault}{\sfdefault} \color{TextColor} % Header and Footer \pagestyle{fancy} \fancyhead{} % Set header to blank \fancyfoot{} % Set footer to blank \fancyhead[L]{ \noindent \begin{multicols}{3} \begin{tabulary}{5.8cm}{C} \SetRowColor{DarkBackground} \vspace{-7pt} {\parbox{\dimexpr\textwidth-2\fboxsep\relax}{\noindent \hspace*{-6pt}\includegraphics[width=5.8cm]{/web/www.cheatography.com/public/images/cheatography_logo.pdf}} } \end{tabulary} \columnbreak \begin{tabulary}{11cm}{L} \vspace{-2pt}\large{\bf{\textcolor{DarkBackground}{\textrm{PostgreSQL Installation on Ubuntu Cheat Sheet}}}} \\ \normalsize{by \textcolor{DarkBackground}{Bersania} via \textcolor{DarkBackground}{\uline{cheatography.com/170325/cs/36304/}}} \end{tabulary} \end{multicols}} \fancyfoot[L]{ \footnotesize \noindent \begin{multicols}{3} \begin{tabulary}{5.8cm}{LL} \SetRowColor{FootBackground} \mymulticolumn{2}{p{5.377cm}}{\bf\textcolor{white}{Cheatographer}} \\ \vspace{-2pt}Bersania \\ \uline{cheatography.com/bersania} \\ \end{tabulary} \vfill \columnbreak \begin{tabulary}{5.8cm}{L} \SetRowColor{FootBackground} \mymulticolumn{1}{p{5.377cm}}{\bf\textcolor{white}{Cheat Sheet}} \\ \vspace{-2pt}Published 4th April, 2023.\\ Updated 31st January, 2023.\\ Page {\thepage} of \pageref{LastPage}. \end{tabulary} \vfill \columnbreak \begin{tabulary}{5.8cm}{L} \SetRowColor{FootBackground} \mymulticolumn{1}{p{5.377cm}}{\bf\textcolor{white}{Sponsor}} \\ \SetRowColor{white} \vspace{-5pt} %\includegraphics[width=48px,height=48px]{dave.jpeg} Measure your website readability!\\ www.readability-score.com \end{tabulary} \end{multicols}} \begin{document} \raggedright \raggedcolumns % Set font size to small. Switch to any value % from this page to resize cheat sheet text: % www.emerson.emory.edu/services/latex/latex_169.html \footnotesize % Small font. \begin{multicols*}{2} \begin{tabularx}{8.4cm}{X} \SetRowColor{DarkBackground} \mymulticolumn{1}{x{8.4cm}}{\bf\textcolor{white}{Documentation}} \tn \SetRowColor{white} \mymulticolumn{1}{x{8.4cm}}{\seqsplit{https://www.postgresql.org/docs/15/index.html} \newline % Row Count 1 (+ 1) \seqsplit{https://postgrespro.com/docs/postgresql/15/index}% Row Count 2 (+ 1) } \tn \hhline{>{\arrayrulecolor{DarkBackground}}-} \end{tabularx} \par\addvspace{1.3em} \begin{tabularx}{8.4cm}{X} \SetRowColor{DarkBackground} \mymulticolumn{1}{x{8.4cm}}{\bf\textcolor{white}{Preparing for the Installation}} \tn % Row 0 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} \mymulticolumn{1}{x{8.4cm}}{If PostgreSQL 15 package is not available in the default package repository, enable its official package repository} \tn % Row Count 3 (+ 3) % Row 1 \SetRowColor{white} \mymulticolumn{1}{x{8.4cm}}{{\bf{Execute update}}} \tn % Row Count 4 (+ 1) % Row 2 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} \mymulticolumn{1}{x{8.4cm}}{\$ sudo apt update \&\& sudo apt upgrade} \tn % Row Count 5 (+ 1) \hhline{>{\arrayrulecolor{DarkBackground}}-} \end{tabularx} \par\addvspace{1.3em} \begin{tabularx}{8.4cm}{X} \SetRowColor{DarkBackground} \mymulticolumn{1}{x{8.4cm}}{\bf\textcolor{white}{Check PostgreSQL Version}} \tn % Row 0 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} \mymulticolumn{1}{x{8.4cm}}{\$postgres -{}-version or \$postgres -V} \tn % Row Count 1 (+ 1) % Row 1 \SetRowColor{white} \mymulticolumn{1}{x{8.4cm}}{If not found execute \$locate bin/postgres \{\{nl\}\} and then \seqsplit{\$/usr/lib/postgresql/15/bin/postgres} -V} \tn % Row Count 3 (+ 2) % Row 2 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} \mymulticolumn{1}{x{8.4cm}}{Check Postgres version from SQL Shell \{\{nl\}\} \$sudo -u postgres psql \{\{nl\}\} \# SELECT version();} \tn % Row Count 5 (+ 2) \hhline{>{\arrayrulecolor{DarkBackground}}-} \end{tabularx} \par\addvspace{1.3em} \begin{tabularx}{8.4cm}{X} \SetRowColor{DarkBackground} \mymulticolumn{1}{x{8.4cm}}{\bf\textcolor{white}{Installation}} \tn % Row 0 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} \mymulticolumn{1}{x{8.4cm}}{{\bf{Ubuntu}}} \tn % Row Count 1 (+ 1) % Row 1 \SetRowColor{white} \mymulticolumn{1}{x{8.4cm}}{install \$ sudo apt install -y postgresql-15 \{\{nl\}\} uninstall \$ sudo apt-get -{}-purge remove postgresql postgresql-*} \tn % Row Count 4 (+ 3) % Row 2 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} \mymulticolumn{1}{x{8.4cm}}{{\bf{Server config}}} \tn % Row Count 5 (+ 1) % Row 3 \SetRowColor{white} \mymulticolumn{1}{x{8.4cm}}{sudo \seqsplit{/usr/lib/postgresql/15/bin/pg\_config} -{}-configure} \tn % Row Count 7 (+ 2) % Row 4 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} \mymulticolumn{1}{x{8.4cm}}{{\bf{List clusters}} \{\{nl\}\} \$ sudo pg\_lsclusters} \tn % Row Count 8 (+ 1) % Row 5 \SetRowColor{white} \mymulticolumn{1}{x{8.4cm}}{{\bf{Creat and drop a cluster}}} \tn % Row Count 9 (+ 1) % Row 6 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} \mymulticolumn{1}{x{8.4cm}}{\$ sudo pg\_createcluster {[}options{]} version name \{\{nl\}\} \$ sudo pg\_dropcluster {[}-{}-stop{]} version name} \tn % Row Count 11 (+ 2) % Row 7 \SetRowColor{white} \mymulticolumn{1}{x{8.4cm}}{{\bf{Start, stop, restart service and cluster}}} \tn % Row Count 12 (+ 1) % Row 8 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} \mymulticolumn{1}{x{8.4cm}}{When installing from a package, the launch of the PostgreSQL cluster is added to the OS startup settings. Therefore, after loading the operating system, you do not need to start PostgreSQL separately.} \tn % Row Count 16 (+ 4) % Row 9 \SetRowColor{white} \mymulticolumn{1}{x{8.4cm}}{{\bf{Managing the PostgreSQL service}}} \tn % Row Count 17 (+ 1) % Row 10 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} \mymulticolumn{1}{x{8.4cm}}{\$ sudo systemctl start | stop | restart postgresql} \tn % Row Count 19 (+ 2) % Row 11 \SetRowColor{white} \mymulticolumn{1}{x{8.4cm}}{{\bf{You can explicitly control the cluster with the following commands:}} \{\{nl\}\} \$ sudo pg\_ctlcluster 15 main start | stop | restart | status | reload} \tn % Row Count 22 (+ 3) \hhline{>{\arrayrulecolor{DarkBackground}}-} \end{tabularx} \par\addvspace{1.3em} \begin{tabularx}{8.4cm}{X} \SetRowColor{DarkBackground} \mymulticolumn{1}{x{8.4cm}}{\bf\textcolor{white}{Directory}} \tn % Row 0 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} \mymulticolumn{1}{x{8.4cm}}{{\bf{Installation directory}}} \tn % Row Count 1 (+ 1) % Row 1 \SetRowColor{white} \mymulticolumn{1}{x{8.4cm}}{/usr/lib/postgresql/15} \tn % Row Count 2 (+ 1) % Row 2 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} \mymulticolumn{1}{x{8.4cm}}{{\bf{Configuration directory}}} \tn % Row Count 3 (+ 1) % Row 3 \SetRowColor{white} \mymulticolumn{1}{x{8.4cm}}{/etc/postgresql/15/main} \tn % Row Count 4 (+ 1) % Row 4 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} \mymulticolumn{1}{x{8.4cm}}{{\bf{Default cluster location main (PGDATA)}}} \tn % Row Count 5 (+ 1) % Row 5 \SetRowColor{white} \mymulticolumn{1}{x{8.4cm}}{\seqsplit{/var/lib/postgresql/15/main}} \tn % Row Count 6 (+ 1) % Row 6 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} \mymulticolumn{1}{x{8.4cm}}{{\bf{Database directories}}} \tn % Row Count 7 (+ 1) % Row 7 \SetRowColor{white} \mymulticolumn{1}{x{8.4cm}}{\seqsplit{/var/lib/postgresql/15/main/base} \{\{nl\}\} \# select oid, datname from pg\_database;} \tn % Row Count 9 (+ 2) % Row 8 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} \mymulticolumn{1}{x{8.4cm}}{{\bf{Data location}}} \tn % Row Count 10 (+ 1) % Row 9 \SetRowColor{white} \mymulticolumn{1}{x{8.4cm}}{\# SHOW data\_directory; \{\{nl\}\} \seqsplit{/var/lib/postgresql/15/main}} \tn % Row Count 12 (+ 2) % Row 10 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} \mymulticolumn{1}{x{8.4cm}}{{\bf{Server message log}}} \tn % Row Count 13 (+ 1) % Row 11 \SetRowColor{white} \mymulticolumn{1}{x{8.4cm}}{\$ ls -l \seqsplit{/var/log/postgresql/postgresql-15-main}.log} \tn % Row Count 15 (+ 2) % Row 12 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} \mymulticolumn{1}{x{8.4cm}}{\$ tail -n 10 \seqsplit{/var/log/postgresql/postgresql-15-main}.log} \tn % Row Count 17 (+ 2) % Row 13 \SetRowColor{white} \mymulticolumn{1}{x{8.4cm}}{{\bf{Links}}} \tn % Row Count 18 (+ 1) % Row 14 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} \mymulticolumn{1}{x{8.4cm}}{\seqsplit{https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/storage-file-layout.html}} \tn % Row Count 20 (+ 2) % Row 15 \SetRowColor{white} \mymulticolumn{1}{x{8.4cm}}{\seqsplit{https://postgrespro.com/docs/postgresql/15/storage-file-layout}} \tn % Row Count 22 (+ 2) \hhline{>{\arrayrulecolor{DarkBackground}}-} \end{tabularx} \par\addvspace{1.3em} \begin{tabularx}{8.4cm}{X} \SetRowColor{DarkBackground} \mymulticolumn{1}{x{8.4cm}}{\bf\textcolor{white}{User creation}} \tn % Row 0 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} \mymulticolumn{1}{x{8.4cm}}{{\bf{Set a password for the postgres user}}} \tn % Row Count 1 (+ 1) % Row 1 \SetRowColor{white} \mymulticolumn{1}{x{8.4cm}}{\$sudo -u postgres psql \{\{nl\}\} \# \textbackslash{}password postgres \{\{nl\}\} Enter new password: \{\{nl\}\} {\bf{or}} \{\{nl\}\} \# ALTER USER postgres PASSWORD '\textless{}new-password\textgreater{}';} \tn % Row Count 4 (+ 3) % Row 2 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} \mymulticolumn{1}{x{8.4cm}}{{\bf{user list}}} \tn % Row Count 5 (+ 1) % Row 3 \SetRowColor{white} \mymulticolumn{1}{x{8.4cm}}{\# \textbackslash{}du} \tn % Row Count 6 (+ 1) % Row 4 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} \mymulticolumn{1}{x{8.4cm}}{{\bf{Creating a new role (user)}}} \tn % Row Count 7 (+ 1) % Row 5 \SetRowColor{white} \mymulticolumn{1}{x{8.4cm}}{\# create user \textless{}username\textgreater{} with password '123456'; \{\{nl\}\} \# alter user \textless{}username\textgreater{} with SUPERUSER; \{\{nl\}\} {\bf{or}} \{\{nl\}\} \$sudo -u postgres createuser -{}-interactive} \tn % Row Count 11 (+ 4) \hhline{>{\arrayrulecolor{DarkBackground}}-} \end{tabularx} \par\addvspace{1.3em} \begin{tabularx}{8.4cm}{X} \SetRowColor{DarkBackground} \mymulticolumn{1}{x{8.4cm}}{\bf\textcolor{white}{second}} \tn % Row 0 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} \mymulticolumn{1}{x{8.4cm}}{} \tn % Row Count 0 (+ 0) \hhline{>{\arrayrulecolor{DarkBackground}}-} \end{tabularx} \par\addvspace{1.3em} \begin{tabularx}{8.4cm}{X} \SetRowColor{DarkBackground} \mymulticolumn{1}{x{8.4cm}}{\bf\textcolor{white}{Tablespace}} \tn % Row 0 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} \mymulticolumn{1}{x{8.4cm}}{{\bf{List tablespaces}}} \tn % Row Count 1 (+ 1) % Row 1 \SetRowColor{white} \mymulticolumn{1}{x{8.4cm}}{\# SELECT * FROM pg\_tablespace; or \# \textbackslash{}db} \tn % Row Count 2 (+ 1) % Row 2 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} \mymulticolumn{1}{x{8.4cm}}{{\bf{CREATE TABLESPACE}}} \tn % Row Count 3 (+ 1) % Row 3 \SetRowColor{white} \mymulticolumn{1}{x{8.4cm}}{\$ sudo mkdir \seqsplit{/var/lib/postgresql/test\_dir} \{\{nl\}\} \$ sudo chown postgres \seqsplit{/var/lib/postgresql/test\_dir} \{\{nl\}\} \# CREATE TABLESPACE test LOCATION \seqsplit{'/var/lib/postgresql/test\_dir';}} \tn % Row Count 7 (+ 4) % Row 4 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} \mymulticolumn{1}{x{8.4cm}}{{\bf{Creating a database in a new tablespace}}} \tn % Row Count 8 (+ 1) % Row 5 \SetRowColor{white} \mymulticolumn{1}{x{8.4cm}}{\# CREATE DATABASE appdb TABLESPACE test;} \tn % Row Count 9 (+ 1) % Row 6 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} \mymulticolumn{1}{x{8.4cm}}{{\bf{Tablespace size}}} \tn % Row Count 10 (+ 1) % Row 7 \SetRowColor{white} \mymulticolumn{1}{x{8.4cm}}{SELECT pg\_size\_pretty( \seqsplit{pg\_tablespace\_size('test')} );} \tn % Row Count 12 (+ 2) % Row 8 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} \mymulticolumn{1}{x{8.4cm}}{{\bf{Delet tablespace}}} \tn % Row Count 13 (+ 1) % Row 9 \SetRowColor{white} \mymulticolumn{1}{x{8.4cm}}{\# DROP TABLESPACE test;} \tn % Row Count 14 (+ 1) % Row 10 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} \mymulticolumn{1}{x{8.4cm}}{{\bf{Moving a directory with default data}}} \tn % Row Count 15 (+ 1) % Row 11 \SetRowColor{white} \mymulticolumn{1}{x{8.4cm}}{Stop cluster \{\{nl\}\} sudo pg\_ctlcluster 15 main stop \{\{nl\}\} Copy data to new directory \{\{nl\}\} Change the data\_directory variable in the config file \{\{nl\}\} \seqsplit{/etc/postgresql/15/main/postgresql}.conf \{\{nl\}\} Start cluster \{\{nl\}\} sudo pg\_ctlcluster 15 main start} \tn % Row Count 21 (+ 6) % Row 12 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} \mymulticolumn{1}{x{8.4cm}}{{\bf{Links}}} \tn % Row Count 22 (+ 1) % Row 13 \SetRowColor{white} \mymulticolumn{1}{x{8.4cm}}{\seqsplit{https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/manage-ag-tablespaces.html} \{\{nl\}\} \seqsplit{https://postgrespro.com/docs/postgrespro/15/sql-createtablespace}} \tn % Row Count 25 (+ 3) \hhline{>{\arrayrulecolor{DarkBackground}}-} \end{tabularx} \par\addvspace{1.3em} \begin{tabularx}{8.4cm}{X} \SetRowColor{DarkBackground} \mymulticolumn{1}{x{8.4cm}}{\bf\textcolor{white}{Connection configuration}} \tn % Row 0 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} \mymulticolumn{1}{x{8.4cm}}{{\bf{Сonfiguration file}}} \tn % Row Count 1 (+ 1) % Row 1 \SetRowColor{white} \mymulticolumn{1}{x{8.4cm}}{\seqsplit{/etc/postgresql/15/main/postgresql}.conf \{\{nl\}\} edit the listen\_addresses from localhost to *. Enable the listen\_addresses by removing the \#} \tn % Row Count 4 (+ 3) % Row 2 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} \mymulticolumn{1}{x{8.4cm}}{\seqsplit{/etc/postgresql/15/main/pg\_hba}.conf} \tn % Row Count 5 (+ 1) % Row 3 \SetRowColor{white} \mymulticolumn{1}{x{8.4cm}}{To connect to a particular database, a user must not only pass the pg\_hba.conf checks, but must have the CONNECT privilege for the database. \{\{nl\}\} GRANT CONNECT ON DATABASE database\_name TO username;} \tn % Row Count 9 (+ 4) % Row 4 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} \mymulticolumn{1}{x{8.4cm}}{{\bf{A record can have several formats:}}} \tn % Row Count 10 (+ 1) % Row 5 \SetRowColor{white} \mymulticolumn{1}{x{8.4cm}}{local database user auth-method {[}auth-options{]}} \tn % Row Count 12 (+ 2) % Row 6 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} \mymulticolumn{1}{x{8.4cm}}{host database user address auth-method {[}auth-options{]}} \tn % Row Count 14 (+ 2) % Row 7 \SetRowColor{white} \mymulticolumn{1}{x{8.4cm}}{host database user IP-address IP-mask auth-method {[}auth-options{]}} \tn % Row Count 16 (+ 2) % Row 8 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} \mymulticolumn{1}{x{8.4cm}}{Allow any user from host 192.168.12.10 to connect to database "postgres" if the user's password is correctly supplied.} \tn % Row Count 19 (+ 3) % Row 9 \SetRowColor{white} \mymulticolumn{1}{x{8.4cm}}{\# TYPE DATABASE USER ADDRESS METHOD \{\{nl\}\} host postgres all 192.168.12.10/32 scram-sha-256} \tn % Row Count 21 (+ 2) % Row 10 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} \mymulticolumn{1}{x{8.4cm}}{from all IP \{\{nl\}\} host postgres all 0.0.0.0/0 scram-sha-256} \tn % Row Count 23 (+ 2) % Row 11 \SetRowColor{white} \mymulticolumn{1}{x{8.4cm}}{{\bf{Links}} \{\{nl\}\} \seqsplit{https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/auth-pg-hba-conf.html} \{\{nl\}\} \seqsplit{https://postgrespro.com/docs/postgrespro/10/auth-pg-hba-conf}} \tn % Row Count 26 (+ 3) \hhline{>{\arrayrulecolor{DarkBackground}}-} \end{tabularx} \par\addvspace{1.3em} \begin{tabularx}{8.4cm}{X} \SetRowColor{DarkBackground} \mymulticolumn{1}{x{8.4cm}}{\bf\textcolor{white}{Backup \& Restore}} \tn % Row 0 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} \mymulticolumn{1}{x{8.4cm}}{{\bf{pg\_dumpall}}} \tn % Row Count 1 (+ 1) % Row 1 \SetRowColor{white} \mymulticolumn{1}{x{8.4cm}}{pg\_dumpall — extract a PostgreSQL database cluster into a script file} \tn % Row Count 3 (+ 2) % Row 2 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} \mymulticolumn{1}{x{8.4cm}}{pg\_dumpall {[}connection-option...{]} {[}option...{]}} \tn % Row Count 4 (+ 1) % Row 3 \SetRowColor{white} \mymulticolumn{1}{x{8.4cm}}{\$ pg\_dumpall \textgreater{} db.out \{\{nl\}\} \$ psql -f db.out postgres} \tn % Row Count 6 (+ 2) % Row 4 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} \mymulticolumn{1}{x{8.4cm}}{{\bf{pg\_dump}}} \tn % Row Count 7 (+ 1) % Row 5 \SetRowColor{white} \mymulticolumn{1}{x{8.4cm}}{pg\_dump — extract a PostgreSQL database into a script file or other archive file} \tn % Row Count 9 (+ 2) % Row 6 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} \mymulticolumn{1}{x{8.4cm}}{pg\_dump {[}connection-option...{]} {[}option...{]} {[}dbname{]}} \tn % Row Count 11 (+ 2) % Row 7 \SetRowColor{white} \mymulticolumn{1}{x{8.4cm}}{To dump a database called mydb into an SQL-script file:} \tn % Row Count 13 (+ 2) % Row 8 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} \mymulticolumn{1}{x{8.4cm}}{\$ pg\_dump mydb \textgreater{} db.sql} \tn % Row Count 14 (+ 1) % Row 9 \SetRowColor{white} \mymulticolumn{1}{x{8.4cm}}{To reload such a script into a (freshly created) database named newdb:} \tn % Row Count 16 (+ 2) % Row 10 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} \mymulticolumn{1}{x{8.4cm}}{\$ psql -d newdb -f db.sql} \tn % Row Count 17 (+ 1) % Row 11 \SetRowColor{white} \mymulticolumn{1}{x{8.4cm}}{To dump a database into a custom-format archive file:} \tn % Row Count 19 (+ 2) % Row 12 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} \mymulticolumn{1}{x{8.4cm}}{\$ pg\_dump -Fc mydb \textgreater{} db.dump} \tn % Row Count 20 (+ 1) % Row 13 \SetRowColor{white} \mymulticolumn{1}{x{8.4cm}}{To dump a database into a directory-format archive:} \tn % Row Count 22 (+ 2) % Row 14 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} \mymulticolumn{1}{x{8.4cm}}{\$ pg\_dump -Fd mydb -f dumpdir} \tn % Row Count 23 (+ 1) % Row 15 \SetRowColor{white} \mymulticolumn{1}{x{8.4cm}}{To reload an archive file into a (freshly created) database named newdb:} \tn % Row Count 25 (+ 2) % Row 16 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} \mymulticolumn{1}{x{8.4cm}}{\$ pg\_restore -d newdb db.dump} \tn % Row Count 26 (+ 1) % Row 17 \SetRowColor{white} \mymulticolumn{1}{x{8.4cm}}{To reload an archive file into the same database it was dumped from, discarding the current contents of that database:} \tn % Row Count 29 (+ 3) % Row 18 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} \mymulticolumn{1}{x{8.4cm}}{\$ pg\_restore -d postgres -{}-clean -{}-create db.dump} \tn % Row Count 30 (+ 1) \end{tabularx} \par\addvspace{1.3em} \vfill \columnbreak \begin{tabularx}{8.4cm}{X} \SetRowColor{DarkBackground} \mymulticolumn{1}{x{8.4cm}}{\bf\textcolor{white}{Backup \& Restore (cont)}} \tn % Row 19 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} \mymulticolumn{1}{x{8.4cm}}{{\bf{Links}}} \tn % Row Count 1 (+ 1) % Row 20 \SetRowColor{white} \mymulticolumn{1}{x{8.4cm}}{\seqsplit{https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/app-pgdump.html}} \tn % Row Count 3 (+ 2) % Row 21 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} \mymulticolumn{1}{x{8.4cm}}{\seqsplit{https://postgrespro.com/docs/postgrespro/15/app-pgdump}} \tn % Row Count 5 (+ 2) \hhline{>{\arrayrulecolor{DarkBackground}}-} \end{tabularx} \par\addvspace{1.3em} % That's all folks \end{multicols*} \end{document}