\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{hugomfcruz} \pdfinfo{ /Title (postgres.pdf) /Creator (Cheatography) /Author (hugomfcruz) /Subject (Postgres 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}{A3A3A3} \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{Postgres Cheat Sheet}}}} \\ \normalsize{by \textcolor{DarkBackground}{hugomfcruz} via \textcolor{DarkBackground}{\uline{cheatography.com/43837/cs/13013/}}} \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}hugomfcruz \\ \uline{cheatography.com/hugomfcruz} \\ \end{tabulary} \vfill \columnbreak \begin{tabulary}{5.8cm}{L} \SetRowColor{FootBackground} \mymulticolumn{1}{p{5.377cm}}{\bf\textcolor{white}{Cheat Sheet}} \\ \vspace{-2pt}Not Yet Published.\\ Updated 4th October, 2017.\\ 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{2.4 cm} x{5.6 cm} } \SetRowColor{DarkBackground} \mymulticolumn{2}{x{8.4cm}}{\bf\textcolor{white}{psql client options}} \tn % Row 0 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} `-l` & List all available databases \tn % Row Count 1 (+ 1) % Row 1 \SetRowColor{white} `-d \seqsplit{\_\_database\_\_`} & Connect to database \tn % Row Count 3 (+ 2) % Row 2 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} `-U \seqsplit{\_\_user\_\_`} & Connect with user \tn % Row Count 5 (+ 2) % Row 3 \SetRowColor{white} `-W \seqsplit{\_\_password`} & Connect with password \tn % Row Count 7 (+ 2) % Row 4 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} `-h \seqsplit{\_\_hostname\_\_`} & Connect to host \tn % Row Count 9 (+ 2) % Row 5 \SetRowColor{white} `-p \seqsplit{\_\_port\_\_`} & Connect via port \tn % Row Count 11 (+ 2) % Row 6 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} `-c \seqsplit{'\_\_command'`} & Run command \tn % Row Count 13 (+ 2) % Row 7 \SetRowColor{white} `-f` & Run file \tn % Row Count 14 (+ 1) % Row 8 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} `-L \seqsplit{\_\_logfile\_\_`} & Output query output to log file and stdout \tn % Row Count 16 (+ 2) % Row 9 \SetRowColor{white} `-o \seqsplit{\_\_file\_\_`} & Output query output to log file \tn % Row Count 18 (+ 2) % Row 10 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} `-t` & Print tuples only (no headers/footers) \tn % Row Count 20 (+ 2) \hhline{>{\arrayrulecolor{DarkBackground}}--} \end{tabularx} \par\addvspace{1.3em} \begin{tabularx}{8.4cm}{x{4.72 cm} x{3.28 cm} } \SetRowColor{DarkBackground} \mymulticolumn{2}{x{8.4cm}}{\bf\textcolor{white}{psql commands}} \tn % Row 0 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} Command overview & `\textbackslash{}?` \tn % Row Count 1 (+ 1) % Row 1 \SetRowColor{white} Exit & `\textbackslash{}q` \tn % Row Count 2 (+ 1) % Row 2 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} Connect to database & `\textbackslash{}c \seqsplit{\_\_database\_\_`} \tn % Row Count 4 (+ 2) % Row 3 \SetRowColor{white} Show table definition & `\textbackslash{}d \_\_table\_\_` \tn % Row Count 5 (+ 1) % Row 4 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} List tables & `\textbackslash{}dt` \tn % Row Count 6 (+ 1) % Row 5 \SetRowColor{white} List databases & `\textbackslash{}l` \tn % Row Count 7 (+ 1) % Row 6 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} List schemas & `\textbackslash{}dn` \tn % Row Count 8 (+ 1) % Row 7 \SetRowColor{white} List functions & `\textbackslash{}df` \tn % Row Count 9 (+ 1) % Row 8 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} List views & `\textbackslash{}dv` \tn % Row Count 10 (+ 1) % Row 9 \SetRowColor{white} Show function SQL code & `\textbackslash{}df+ \seqsplit{\_\_function\_\_`} \tn % Row Count 12 (+ 2) % Row 10 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} Pretty-format query results & `\textbackslash{}x` \tn % Row Count 14 (+ 2) \hhline{>{\arrayrulecolor{DarkBackground}}--} \end{tabularx} \par\addvspace{1.3em} \begin{tabularx}{8.4cm}{x{4 cm} x{4 cm} } \SetRowColor{DarkBackground} \mymulticolumn{2}{x{8.4cm}}{\bf\textcolor{white}{Query analysis}} \tn % Row 0 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} See the query plan for the given query & EXPLAIN \_\_query\_\_ \tn % Row Count 2 (+ 2) % Row 1 \SetRowColor{white} See and execute the query plan for the given query & EXPLAIN ANALYZE \_\_query\_\_ \tn % Row Count 5 (+ 3) % Row 2 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} Collect statistics & ANALYZE {[}\_\_table\_\_{]} \tn % Row Count 6 (+ 1) % Row 3 \SetRowColor{white} Get statistics for table & SELECT * from \seqsplit{pg\_stat\_user\_tables} where \seqsplit{relname=\_\_table\_\_} \tn % Row Count 9 (+ 3) % Row 4 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} Get statistics for table in current transaction & SELECT * from \seqsplit{pg\_stat\_xact\_user\_tables} where \seqsplit{relname=\_\_table\_\_} \tn % Row Count 13 (+ 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}{References/Credits}} \tn % Row 0 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} \mymulticolumn{1}{x{8.4cm}}{\seqsplit{https://gist.github.com/Kartones/dd3ff5ec5ea238d4c546}} \tn % Row Count 2 (+ 2) % Row 1 \SetRowColor{white} \mymulticolumn{1}{x{8.4cm}}{\seqsplit{https://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.6/static/index.html}} \tn % Row Count 4 (+ 2) \hhline{>{\arrayrulecolor{DarkBackground}}-} \end{tabularx} \par\addvspace{1.3em} \begin{tabularx}{8.4cm}{x{2.16 cm} x{5.84 cm} } \SetRowColor{DarkBackground} \mymulticolumn{2}{x{8.4cm}}{\bf\textcolor{white}{DDL}} \tn % Row 0 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} Create database & `CREATE DATABASE \textless{}database\_name\textgreater{} WITH OWNER \textless{}username\textgreater{};` \tn % Row Count 2 (+ 2) % Row 1 \SetRowColor{white} Delete database & `DROP DATABASE IF EXISTS \textless{}database\_name\textgreater{};` \tn % Row Count 4 (+ 2) % Row 2 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} Rename database & `ALTER DATABASE \textless{}old\_name\textgreater{} RENAME TO \textless{}new\_name\textgreater{};` \tn % Row Count 6 (+ 2) % Row 3 \SetRowColor{white} Create table & `CREATE TABLE \textless{}table\_name\textgreater{}(\{\{nl\}\}~~\textless{}column\_name\textgreater{} SERIAL PRIMARY KEY,\{\{nl\}\}~~\textless{}column\_name\textgreater{} \textless{}column\_type\textgreater{} );` \tn % Row Count 11 (+ 5) % Row 4 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} Delete table & `ROP TABLE IF EXISTS \textless{}table\_name\textgreater{} CASCADE;` \tn % Row Count 13 (+ 2) % Row 5 \SetRowColor{white} Add column & `ALTER TABLE \textless{}table\_name\textgreater{} IF EXISTS\{\{nl\}\}~~ADD \textless{}column\_name\textgreater{} \textless{}data\_type\textgreater{} {[}\textless{}constraints\textgreater{}{]};` \tn % Row Count 17 (+ 4) % Row 6 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} Alter column & `ALTER TABLE \textless{}table\_name\textgreater{} IF EXISTS\{\{nl\}\}~~ALTER \textless{}column\_name\textgreater{} TYPE \textless{}data\_type\textgreater{} {[}\textless{}constraints\textgreater{}{]};` \tn % Row Count 21 (+ 4) % Row 7 \SetRowColor{white} Delete column & `ALTER TABLE \textless{}table\_name\textgreater{} IF EXISTS\{\{nl\}\}~~DROP \textless{}column\_name\textgreater{};` \tn % Row Count 24 (+ 3) \hhline{>{\arrayrulecolor{DarkBackground}}--} \end{tabularx} \par\addvspace{1.3em} \begin{tabularx}{8.4cm}{x{2.16 cm} x{5.84 cm} } \SetRowColor{DarkBackground} \mymulticolumn{2}{x{8.4cm}}{\bf\textcolor{white}{Constraints}} \tn % Row 0 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} Add primary key & ALTER TABLE \_\_table\_\_ \{\{nl\}\}~~ADD CONSTRAINT \_\_constraintname\_\_ \{\{nl\}\}~~PRIMARY KEY(\_\_col\_\_, \_\_col\_\_); \tn % Row Count 5 (+ 5) % Row 1 \SetRowColor{white} Add unique & ALTER TABLE \_\_table\_\_ \{\{nl\}\}~~ADD CONSTRAINT \_\_constraintname\_\_ \{\{nl\}\}~~UNIQUE(\_\_col\_\_, \_\_col\_\_); \tn % Row Count 10 (+ 5) % Row 2 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} Add foreign key & ALTER TABLE \_\_table\_\_ \{\{nl\}\}~~ADD CONSTRAINT \_\_constraintname\_\_ \{\{nl\}\}~~FOREIGN KEY(\_\_col\_\_, \_\_col\_\_) \{\{nl\}\}~~REFERENCES \seqsplit{\_\_table\_\_(\_\_col\_\_}, \_\_col\_\_); \tn % Row Count 17 (+ 7) % Row 3 \SetRowColor{white} Add check & ALTER TABLE \_\_table\_\_ \{\{nl\}\}~~ADD CONSTRAINT \_\_constraintname\_\_ \{\{nl\}\}~~CHECK(\_\_condition\_\_); \tn % Row Count 21 (+ 4) % Row 4 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} Drop & ALTER TABLE \_\_table\_\_ \{\{nl\}\}~~DROP CONSTRAINT \_\_constraint\_\_; \tn % Row Count 24 (+ 3) \hhline{>{\arrayrulecolor{DarkBackground}}--} \end{tabularx} \par\addvspace{1.3em} \begin{tabularx}{8.4cm}{x{4 cm} x{4 cm} } \SetRowColor{DarkBackground} \mymulticolumn{2}{x{8.4cm}}{\bf\textcolor{white}{Handy queries}} \tn % Row 0 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} List procedure/function & `SELECT * FROM pg\_proc\{\{nl\}\} WHERE \seqsplit{proname='\_\_procedurename\_\_'`} \tn % Row Count 4 (+ 4) % Row 1 \SetRowColor{white} Show DB table space in use & `SELECT \seqsplit{pg\_size\_pretty(pg\_total\_relation\_size('\_\_table\_name\_\_'));`} \tn % Row Count 8 (+ 4) % Row 2 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} Show DB space in use & `SELECT \seqsplit{pg\_size\_pretty(pg\_database\_size('\_\_database\_name\_\_'));`} \tn % Row Count 12 (+ 4) % Row 3 \SetRowColor{white} Show current user's statement timeout & `show \seqsplit{statement\_timeout;`} \tn % Row Count 14 (+ 2) % Row 4 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} Queries being executed & `SELECT\{\{nl\}\} ~~datname,\{\{nl\}\} ~~application\_name,\{\{nl\}\} ~~pid,\{\{nl\}\} ~~backend\_start,\{\{nl\}\} ~~query\_start,\{\{nl\}\} ~~state\_change,\{\{nl\}\} ~~state,\{\{nl\}\} ~~query\{\{nl\}\} FROM\{\{nl\}\} ~~pg\_stat\_activity\{\{nl\}\} WHERE\{\{nl\}\} \seqsplit{~~datname='\_\_database\_name\_\_';`} \tn % Row Count 32 (+ 18) \end{tabularx} \par\addvspace{1.3em} \vfill \columnbreak \begin{tabularx}{8.4cm}{x{4 cm} x{4 cm} } \SetRowColor{DarkBackground} \mymulticolumn{2}{x{8.4cm}}{\bf\textcolor{white}{Handy queries (cont)}} \tn % Row 5 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} Get all queries from all dbs waiting for data & `SELECT * FROM pg\_stat\_activity WHERE waiting='t';` \tn % Row Count 3 (+ 3) % Row 6 \SetRowColor{white} Currently running queries with process pid & `SELECT\{\{nl\}\} \seqsplit{~~pg\_stat\_get\_backend\_pid(s}.backendid) AS procpid,\{\{nl\}\} \seqsplit{~~pg\_stat\_get\_backend\_activity(s}.backendid) AS current\_query\{\{nl\}\} FROM\{\{nl\}\} ~~(SELECT \seqsplit{pg\_stat\_get\_backend\_idset()} AS backendid) AS s;` \tn % Row Count 15 (+ 12) \hhline{>{\arrayrulecolor{DarkBackground}}--} \end{tabularx} \par\addvspace{1.3em} \begin{tabularx}{8.4cm}{x{3.76 cm} x{4.24 cm} } \SetRowColor{DarkBackground} \mymulticolumn{2}{x{8.4cm}}{\bf\textcolor{white}{Users}} \tn % Row 0 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} Add user & ADD USER \_\_user\_\_; \tn % Row Count 1 (+ 1) % Row 1 \SetRowColor{white} Drop user & DROP USER \_\_user\_\_; \tn % Row Count 2 (+ 1) % Row 2 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} Add user with password & ADD USER \_\_user\_\_ \{\{nl\}\}WITH PASSWORD \_\_password\_\_; \tn % Row Count 5 (+ 3) % Row 3 \SetRowColor{white} Grant permissions for table & GRANT INSERT, UPDATE, DELETE \{\{nl\}\}ON TABLE \_\_table\_\_ TO \_\_user\_\_; \tn % Row Count 9 (+ 4) % Row 4 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} Grant permissions for all tables & GRANT INSERT, UPDATE, DELETE \{\{nl\}\}ON ALL TABLES TO \_\_user\_\_; \tn % Row Count 12 (+ 3) % Row 5 \SetRowColor{white} Grant permissions for sequence & GRANT USAGE \{\{nl\}\}ON SEQUENCE \_\_sequence\_\_ TO \_\_user\_\_; \tn % Row Count 15 (+ 3) % Row 6 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} Grant permissions for all sequences & GRANT USAGE \{\{nl\}\}ON ALL SEQUENCES TO \_\_user\_\_; \tn % Row Count 18 (+ 3) % Row 7 \SetRowColor{white} Grant permissions for function & GRANT EXECUTE \{\{nl\}\}ON FUNCTION \_\_function\_\_ TO \_\_user\_\_; \tn % Row Count 21 (+ 3) % Row 8 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} Grant permissions for all functions & GRANT EXECUTE \{\{nl\}\}ON ALL FUNCTIONS TO \_\_user\_\_; \tn % Row Count 24 (+ 3) \hhline{>{\arrayrulecolor{DarkBackground}}--} \end{tabularx} \par\addvspace{1.3em} \begin{tabularx}{8.4cm}{x{3.52 cm} x{4.48 cm} } \SetRowColor{DarkBackground} \mymulticolumn{2}{x{8.4cm}}{\bf\textcolor{white}{Common Functions}} \tn % Row 0 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} Current date & current\_date \tn % Row Count 1 (+ 1) % Row 1 \SetRowColor{white} Current time & current\_time \tn % Row Count 2 (+ 1) % Row 2 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} Current timestamp & localtimestamp \tn % Row Count 3 (+ 1) % Row 3 \SetRowColor{white} Get date part of column & date(\_\_col\_\_) \tn % Row Count 5 (+ 2) % Row 4 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} Get time part of column & \_\_col\_\_::time \tn % Row Count 7 (+ 2) % Row 5 \SetRowColor{white} Add interval to timestamp & \_\_col\_\_ + interval '1 hour' \tn % Row Count 9 (+ 2) % Row 6 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} Return serial number & INSERT ... RETURNING LASTVAL(); \tn % Row Count 11 (+ 2) % Row 7 \SetRowColor{white} Conditional expressions & CASE expression \{\{nl\}\}~~WHEN value THEN result \{\{nl\}\}~~{[}WHEN ...{]} \{\{nl\}\}~~{[}ELSE result{]} \{\{nl\}\}END \tn % Row Count 17 (+ 6) % Row 8 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} Null values & \seqsplit{COALESCE(\_\_value\_\_}, \{\{nl\}\}~~\_\_default1\_\_, \_\_default2\_\_) \tn % Row Count 20 (+ 3) % Row 9 \SetRowColor{white} Cast & \_\_value\_\_::\_\_type\_\_ \tn % Row Count 21 (+ 1) % Row 10 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} Execute function returning value & SELECT \_\_function\_\_; \tn % Row Count 23 (+ 2) % Row 11 \SetRowColor{white} Execute function returning table & SELECT * FROM \_\_function\_\_; \tn % Row Count 25 (+ 2) \hhline{>{\arrayrulecolor{DarkBackground}}--} \end{tabularx} \par\addvspace{1.3em} % That's all folks \end{multicols*} \end{document}