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PostgreSQL Tool Triage

Modified: 22-Jan-2016   


Applies To

  • ThingWorx Platform 6.5

Description

psql terminal:
The psql client is a command-line client distributed with PostgreSQL, often called as interactive terminal. Psql is a simple yet powerful tool with which you can directly interface with the PostgreSQL server. The psql client comes default with the PostgreSQL database.
 
Key features:
  • Issue queries either through commands or from a file
  • Provides shell-like features to automate tasks
 
pgAdmin III:
pgAdmin III is an open source administration and development tool for PostgreSQL database. It delivers the needs of both admin and normal users from writing simple SQL queries to developing complex databases.
 
Key features:
  • Open source
  • Supports all OS platforms
  • Provides Graphical User Interface (GUI)
  • No additional drivers are required
  • Supports more than 30 different languages
 Note: pgAdmin III comes default with postgreSQL9.4 installer. For more information, refer http://www.pgadmin.org/download/
 
phpPgAdmin:
phpPgAdmin is a web-based client for managing PostgreSQL databases. It provides the user with a convenient way to create databases, create tables, alter tables and query the data using SQL.
 
Key features:
  • Open source and supports PostgreSQL 9.x
  • Requires webserver
  • Administer multiple servers
  • Supports the slony master-slave replication engine
 For phpPgAdmin download: http://phppgadmin.sourceforge.net/doku.php?id=download
 
TeamPostgreSQL:
TeamPostgreSQL is a browser-based tool for PostgreSQL administration. Using TeamPostgreSQL, database objects can be accessed from anywhere in the web browser.
 
Key features:
  • Open source and cross-platform support
  • Supports SSH for both the web interface and the database connections
  • GUI with tabbed SQL editors
 For TeamPostgreSQL download: http://www.teampostgresql.com/download.jsp
 
Monitoring Tools
pgBadger:
pgBadger is a PostgreSQL log analyzer for generating reports from the PostgreSQL log files. It is built in Perl language and uses a javascript
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