Querying a PostgreSQL database

Firstly ensure your user has the adequate permissions to connect to the postgres server in pg_hba.conf.

For the purposes of this tutorial I will be using the postgres user:

sudo su - postgres

psql
\list
\connect snorby

or

psql snorby

For help we can issue:

\?

to list the databases:

\l

and to view the tables:

\dt

to get a description of the table we issue:

\d+ <table-name>

we can then query the table e.g.:

select * from <table> where <column-name> between '2017-07-19 15:31:09.444' and '2017-07-21 15:31:09.444';

and to quite:

\q