Postgres - 从Mac终端列出数据库

Question

I'm experienced with MySQL, but I've just started to work with Postgres - from the terminal on my Mac, how can I see the list of existing Postgres databases using the psql command?

I checked the documentation and I've seen this issue brought up here - https://dba.stackexchange.com/questions/1285/how-do-i-list-all-databases-and-tables-using-psql , where the accepted solution is to simply type psql \\l , and that makes sense to me... however, when I try this, I get the error

psql: FATAL: database "l" does not exist

but I am logged in to Postgres - if I type psql DATABASE_NAME , no problem, I get into the database... this was an issue for me recently because I couldn't remember the name of the database that I wanted to work on. I went into another table (the name of which I did remember), then used the \\l command to see my databases and connected to the DB I needed, but I'd much rather just be able to see a list without having to first connect to a database. How can I do that?

Answer 1

感谢@MichałSznurawa指出我正确的方向 - 从Mac终端，使用psql -l ，而不是psql \\l做的伎俩。