Real-time viewing using pgAdmin or OmniDB
You can also use a GUI tool such as pgAdmin or OmniDB, which we discussed for the first time in Chapter 1, First Steps, to get a quick view of what is going on in the database.
Getting ready
If you use pgAdmin, for better control, you need to install the adminpack
extension in the destination database by issuing the following command:
CREATE EXTENSION adminpack;
This extension is a part of the additionally supplied modules of PostgreSQL (also known as contrib). It provides several administration functions that pgAdmin (and other tools) can use in order to manage, control, and monitor a Postgres server from a remote location.
How to do it…
In this section, we will be covering pgAdmin and OmniDB usage.
Using pgAdmin
This section illustrates the pgAdmin tool.
Once you have installed adminpack
, connect to the database server; this will open a window similar to the one that's shown in the following screenshot, where you can see a general view plus information...