PostgreSQL: Run A SELECT Statement From A Linux Shell Using PSQL
Earlier today I was troubleshooting some resource issues on a PostgreSQL server and needed to test some various SELECT statements to see if any of them were causing problems. I also wanted to verify the amount of resources a SELECT statement made using PGAdmin versus the amount of resources the same SELECT statement used running it directly on the Postgres server itself. Below is information on how to run a SELECT statement from a Linux shell. In this example the server is running CentOS Linux and PostgreSQL 8.4.4.