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Select Data from a Table

After you create a table and populate it with data, use a SELECT statement to display the data contained in the table. The SELECT * statement returns all the column names and row values for all of the data in a table and is a good way to verify that recently added data was correctly inserted into the table.

To view the data that you entered in the testtable table, issue the following command:

select * from testtable;

The result will look like this:

 testcol
---------
100
(1 row)

For more information about using the SELECT statement to query tables, see SELECT in the SQL Command Reference.