Introduction

This chapter provides an overview of how to use SQL to perform simple operations. This tutorial is only intended to give you an introduction and is in no way a complete tutorial on SQL. You should be aware that some ProtonBase language features are extensions to the standard.

In the examples that follow, we assume that you have created a database named mydb, as described in the previous chapter, and have been able to start psql.

To start the tutorial, do the following:

$ psql -s mydb
 
...
 
mydb=> \d

The \d command show a list of all tables, views, and sequences.