PostgreSQL: \list

List all databases

• https://www.postgresql.org/docs/13/app-psql.html

Examples:

• \l
• \list
• -l
• --list

postgres-> \list
                                       List of databases
   Name    |   Owner    | Encoding |   Collate   |    Ctype    |       Access privileges
-----------+------------+----------+-------------+-------------+-------------------------------
 YOUR_DB | rds_master | UTF8     | en_US.UTF-8 | en_US.UTF-8 | =Tc/rds_master               +
           |            |          |             |             | rds_master=CTc/rds_master   
 rdsadmin  | rdsadmin   | UTF8     | en_US.UTF-8 | en_US.UTF-8 | rdsadmin=CTc/rdsadmin
 template0 | rdsadmin   | UTF8     | en_US.UTF-8 | en_US.UTF-8 | =c/rdsadmin                  +
           |            |          |             |             | rdsadmin=CTc/rdsadmin
 template1 | rds_master | UTF8     | en_US.UTF-8 | en_US.UTF-8 | rds_master=CTc/rds_master    +
           |            |          |             |             | =c/rds_master
(4 rows)

completePostgresql=>  \list
                                                       List of databases
        Name        |        Owner        | Encoding |   Collate   |    Ctype    |              Access privileges
--------------------+---------------------+----------+-------------+-------------+---------------------------------------------
 completePostgresql | complete_postgresql | UTF8     | en_US.UTF-8 | en_US.UTF-8 |
 postgres           | complete_postgresql | UTF8     | en_US.UTF-8 | en_US.UTF-8 |
 rdsadmin           | rdsadmin            | UTF8     | en_US.UTF-8 | en_US.UTF-8 | rdsadmin=CTc/rdsadmin                      +
                    |                     |          |             |             | rdstopmgr=Tc/rdsadmin
 template0          | rdsadmin            | UTF8     | en_US.UTF-8 | en_US.UTF-8 | =c/rdsadmin                                +
                    |                     |          |             |             | rdsadmin=CTc/rdsadmin
 template1          | complete_postgresql | UTF8     | en_US.UTF-8 | en_US.UTF-8 | =c/complete_postgresql                     +
                    |                     |          |             |             | complete_postgresql=CTc/complete_postgresql
(5 rows)

Related terms

• List users: \du
• \c YourDBName
• \z YourTable

See also

• SQL, NewSQL: GraphQL (2015), SQLite, select, insert, select count, Distributed SQL, TablePlus, Cache hit ratio, pg_stat_user_tables, EXPLAIN, Index (PostgreSQL), DDL, SQL/MED, Group by, List users, SQL Injection, SQLAlchemy, CREATE USER, CREATE ROLE, EXPLAIN, ALTER DATABASE, REVOKE, NOLOCK, NOWAIT, EXISTS, Unique constraint
• PostgreSQL: pg_dump, pg_restore, pgAdmin, pg_config, psql, pg_ctl, pg_isready, initdb, Role, Schema, DBeaver, Navicat, DataGrip, OmniDB, Adminer, docker-compose.xml PostgreSQL, PostgreSQL version, PostgreSQL logs, postgresql.conf, pg_hba.conf, $HOME/.pg_service.conf, Create database (PostgreSQL), Create user, createdb, GRANT, pg_stat, PostgreSQL VACUUM, EXPLAIN, pg stat activity, Autovacuum, ALTER DATABASE, PostgreSQL statistics collector, Shared buffers, EXPLAIN (PostgreSQL), EXPLAIN ANALYZE, Bitmap scan, EXPLAIN VERBOSE, EXPLAIN VERBOSE (PostgresSQL), WAL, ALTER USER, CREATE ROLE, CREATE USER, \du, show users, \l, The Statistics Collector, pganalyze, cron.schedule, Master, pg_tables, PostgreSQL replication, CREATE, SET, TOAST, PgBouncer, Restore DB, Index, meta-commands, Table, foreign table, Schema, Sequence, Views, materialized view, Table Partitioning, monitoring, PostgreSQL System Administration Functions, PostgreSQL extension, privileges, logging, PGTune, PostgreSQL parameter tunning, PostgreSQL modules, pgbench, PostgreSQL users