About the Tools Package

The Greenplum client and loader tools package provides utility programs that you can install and run on a host outside of your Greenplum Database cluster. The package is available on VMware Tanzu Network.

Greenplum utility programs provided in the client and loader tools package include:

Program	Description
createdb	Create a Greenplum database. Requires superuser or specially-granted Greenplum Database privileges.
createuser	Register a Greenplum user. Requires superuser or specially-granted Greenplum Database privileges.
dropdb	Drop a Greenplum database. Requires superuser or specially-granted Greenplum Database privileges.
dropuser	Remove a Greenplum user. Requires superuser or specially-granted Greenplum Database privileges.
gpfdist	Greenplum parallel file distribution program.
gpkafka	Load Kafka data into Greenplum Database using the VMware Tanzu Greenplum Streaming Server.
gpload	Greenplum data loading utility.
gpss	Start a VMware Tanzu Greenplum Streaming Server instance.
gpsscli	VMware Tanzu Greenplum Streaming Server client program.
pg_dump	Dump the contents of a Greenplum database to a file.
pg_dumpall	Dump the contents of all Greenplum databases to a file.
psql	PostgreSQL interactive command-line interface for Greenplum Database.

Note

The Windows Greenplum client and loader tools package provides additional libraries and programs, including kinit, kdestroy, and klist. The Windows package does not include the gpkafka, gpsscli, and gpss programs.

The gpload program provided in the Windows package is backwards-compatible with Greenplum Database 5.