{"id":11029,"date":"2018-03-20T10:39:01","date_gmt":"2018-03-20T09:39:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dbi-services.com\/blog\/finally-you-will-be-able-to-use-exit-and-quit-in-psql\/"},"modified":"2018-03-20T10:39:01","modified_gmt":"2018-03-20T09:39:01","slug":"finally-you-will-be-able-to-use-exit-and-quit-in-psql","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dbi-services.com\/blog\/finally-you-will-be-able-to-use-exit-and-quit-in-psql\/","title":{"rendered":"Finally you will be able to use exit and quit in psql"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When giving the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dbi-services.com\/trainings\/postgresql-dba-essentials-workshop\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">PostgreSQL DBA Essentials workshop<\/a> one of the main issues people have is how they can exit <a href=\"https:\/\/www.postgresql.org\/docs\/10\/static\/app-psql.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">psql<\/a>. Even on <a href=\"https:\/\/stackoverflow.com\/questions\/9463318\/how-to-exit-from-postgresql-command-line-utility-psql\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">stackoverflow<\/a> this is a popular topic. The good news for people who still don&#8217;t like to use &#8220;q&#8221; here is the <a href=\"https:\/\/commitfest.postgresql.org\/16\/1404\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">commit<\/a> that will add additional options to quit\/exit from psql.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Up to PostgreSQL 10 what you can usually see is something like this:<\/p>\n<pre class=\"brush: sql; gutter: true; first-line: 1\">\npostgres@pgbox:\/home\/postgres\/ [PG10] psql -X postgres\npsql (10.0)\nType \"help\" for help.\n\npostgres=# exit\npostgres-# exit\npostgres-# quit\npostgres-# let me out, what do I need to to?\npostgres-# \n<\/pre>\n<p>Starting with PostgreSQL 11 you can either use &#8220;quit&#8221;:<\/p>\n<pre class=\"brush: sql; gutter: true; first-line: 1; highlight: [5]\">\npostgres@pgbox:\/home\/postgres\/ [PGDEV] psql -X postgres\npsql (11devel)\nType \"help\" for help.\n\npostgres=# quit\npostgres@pgbox:\/home\/postgres\/ [PGDEV] \n<\/pre>\n<p>&#8230; or &#8220;exit&#8221;:<\/p>\n<pre class=\"brush: sql; gutter: true; first-line: 1; highlight: [5]\">\npostgres@pgbox:\/home\/postgres\/ [PGDEV] psql -X postgres\npsql (11devel)\nType \"help\" for help.\n\npostgres=# exit\npostgres@pgbox:\/home\/postgres\/ [PGDEV] \n<\/pre>\n<p>I am pretty sure MacBook users will love that \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When giving the PostgreSQL DBA Essentials workshop one of the main issues people have is how they can exit psql. 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