The database is Postgres, which is, nowadays, a platform on which to build all kinds of database-like systems by creating extensions that deeply customize the core.

You should use a tool such as psql to access a Postgres database, however, you are not using the right incantation. -h specifies a host name, and clearly /usr/local/pgsql/data is not a hostname.

In recent years, PostgreSQL has become the default back-end choice of developers for many web and enterprise applications. PostgreSQL recently became available as one of the managed database offerings ...

This white paper focuses on the most popular source and target for database migrations: moving from Oracle to Postgres. Oracle is the #1 legacy database, and its extremely onerous license policies are ...