\?

Help (list meta-commands)

• \?
• \? \d

\l

List databases

• \l
• \l+

If your Postgres is before v16 it won’t have this command. Instead use:

SELECT datname FROM pg_database;

\c <DB_NAME>

Short for \connect. Use this to connect to a specified database.

• \c mydb
• \c mydb myuser
• \c "postgresql://myuser:secret@localhost:5432/mydb"

\dt

List tables

• \dt
• \dt public.*