Managing PostgreSQL with TablePlus

Shen Lu
Shen Lu
Posted on May 10, 2023
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After setting up local PostgreSQL, I'm looking for a SQL GUI tool to help me manage relational databases, such as MySQL, PostgreSQL. The first tool I used is pgAdmin4, but when I launch it, it can not be opened and throw errors:

And then I tried to solve this problem but failed finally. Thus, I gave up to use it and turn to other tools.

Why TablePlus

Finally I decided to choose TablePlus as the GUI tool of managing database. The reasons are:

  1. It is cross-platform tool for Mac, Linux and Windows.
  2. It has elegant UI and uses easily.
  3. It supports multiple databases including MySQL and PostgreSQL.

Install TablePlus

On Ubuntu 22.04, you can run the commands below to install TablePlus:

# Add TablePlus gpg key
wget -qO - https://deb.tableplus.com/apt.tableplus.com.gpg.key | gpg --dearmor | sudo tee /etc/apt/trusted.gpg.d/tableplus-archive.gpg > /dev/null
 
# Add TablePlus repo
sudo add-apt-repository "deb [arch=amd64] https://deb.tableplus.com/debian/22 tableplus main"
 
# Install
sudo apt update
sudo apt install tableplus

For more information, see: https://tableplus.com/blog/2019/10/tableplus-linux-installation.html

Connect Database with TablePlus

On Ubuntu 22.04

The official tutorial:

https://docs.tableplus.com/gui-tools/manage-connections