II. Postgre-XC Client Applications

This part contains reference information for Postgre-XC client applications and utilities. Not all of these commands are of general utility; some might require special privileges. The common feature of these applications is that they can be run on any host, independent of where the database server resides.

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clusterdb -- cluster a PostgreSQL database
createdb -- create a new Postgres-XC database
createlang -- install a Postgres-XC procedural language
createuser -- define a new Postgres-XC user account
dropdb -- remove a PostgreSQL database
droplang -- remove a Postgres-XC procedural language
dropuser -- remove a Postgres-XC user account
ecpg -- embedded SQL C preprocessor
pg_basebackup -- take a base backup of a PostgreSQL cluster
pg_config -- retrieve information about the installed version of Postgres-XC
pg_dump --  extract a PostgreSQL database into a script file or other archive file
pg_dumpall -- extract a PostgreSQL database cluster into a script file
pg_restore --  restore a PostgreSQL database from an archive file created by pg_dump
psql --  Postgres-XC interactive terminal
reindexdb -- reindex a Postgres-XC database
vacuumdb -- garbage-collect and analyze a PostgreSQL database