How to install pgAdmin 4 in Windows

In this article, you will see How to install pgAdmin 4 in Windows operating system so that, you are able to interact with your Postgres database using the pgAdmin 4 GUI ( Graphical User Interface ) application. You can follow our PostgreSQL tutorials where we have seen all about PostgreSQL and its command along with examples.

Introduction of pgAdmin 4

pgAdmin 4 is one of the most popular open-source administration and development platforms for PostgreSQL.pgAdmin 4 provides a user-friendly user interface where we can manage our PostgreSQL database. We can perform all the activities using the pgAdmin application which we are performing on psql shell.

Features of pgAdmin 4

pgAdmin comes with lots of features that made it popular and attractive. Let’s see all the features one by one.

• pgAdmin 4 is available for all windows, macOS, and Linux.
• Designed for multiple PostgreSQL versions and derivatives.
• Powerful query tool with color syntax highlighting.
• Fast Datagrid for display/entry of data.
• ERD ( Entity-Relationship Diagram ) tool for designing and documenting schemas.
• Schema diff tool for demonstrating between schemas.
• Graphical query plan display.
• Auto vacuum management.
• Monitoring dashboard.
• Backup, restore, vacuum, and analyze on-demand.

Apart from these features, there are also multiple features available inside the pgAdmin tool, which you can check out here.

How to install pgAdmin 4 in Windows

We will break this process into two parts first is downloading pgAdmin 4 latest version and the second is the installation of pgAdmin 4. If you have already downloaded then you can go with the second part.

Download pgAdmin 4

1. Click here to visit pgAdmin 4 windows download page.
2. Click on the latest version of pgAdmin 4. During writing this article latest version is pgAdmin 4 v6.4
   
   
   
3. Click on pgAdmin exe link to download pgAdmin 4 execute application.
   
   

Installation of pgAdmin 4

1. Click on the downloaded pgAdmin 4 executable file and choose to install for all the users.
   
   
2. Click next.
3. Choose I accept the agreement and click on the next button.
   
   
4. Here you can choose the destination location where you want to install pgAdmin 4 other you can avoid it and then click on the Next button.
   
   
5. Click Next.If you don’t want to create program’s shortcut other you can choose folder.
6. Click on the Install button.
   
   
7. Now pgAdmin will take a little bit of time to install, After installation completed click on Finish button.
   
   

Conclusion

So, in this guide, we have seen all about how to install pgAdmin 4 in windows machine with the help of proper screenshots. Now you are able to work with pgAdmin 4 application.pgAdmin 4 is one of the best tools for database administrators who specially work with PostgreSQL database servers because it provides approx all the features within a single application.

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