Finally you will be able to use exit and quit in psql

When giving the PostgreSQL DBA Essentials workshop one of the main issues people have is how they can exit psql. Even on stackoverflow this is a popular topic. The good news for people who still don’t like to use “\q” here is the commit that will add additional options to quit/exit from psql.

Up to PostgreSQL 10 what you can usually see is something like this:

postgres@pgbox:/home/postgres/ [PG10] psql -X postgres
psql (10.0)
Type "help" for help.

postgres=# exit
postgres-# exit
postgres-# quit
postgres-# let me out, what do I need to to?
postgres-# 

Starting with PostgreSQL 11 you can either use “quit”:

postgres@pgbox:/home/postgres/ [PGDEV] psql -X postgres
psql (11devel)
Type "help" for help.

postgres=# quit
postgres@pgbox:/home/postgres/ [PGDEV] 

… or “exit”:

postgres@pgbox:/home/postgres/ [PGDEV] psql -X postgres
psql (11devel)
Type "help" for help.

postgres=# exit
postgres@pgbox:/home/postgres/ [PGDEV] 

I am pretty sure MacBook users will love that