Factsheet
30 years ago (1996-07-08)
30 years ago (1996-07-08)
What are the benefits of using PostgreSQL?
PostgreSQL has a rich history of supporting advanced data types. It supports a level of performance optimization that is common across its commercial database counterparts, like Oracle and SQL Server. Read more benefits below.
General purpose OLTP database
PostgreSQL has superior online transaction processing capabilities (OLTP) because you can configure it for automatic failover and full redundancy. Financial institutions, manufacturers. startups, and large enterprises use PostgreSQL as the primary data store to support their internet-scale applications, solutions, and products.
Federated database
PostgreSQL's Foreign Data Wrappers and JSON support allow it to link with other data storesโincluding NoSQL types. As a result, it can act like a federated hub for polyglot database systems that use different database technologies for varying use cases.
Thanks to @Michaล Sznurawa for pointing me in the right direction - from the Mac terminal, using psql -l, rather than psql \l does the trick.
This lists all databases:
SELECT datname FROM pg_database;
These list all databases in detail:
\list
\l
These list all databases in more detail:
\list+
\l+