Instances​

Let’s get to the good stuff. You can spin up an EdgeDB instance with a single command.

$ 

edgedb instance create my_instance

This creates a new instance named my_instance that runs the latest stable version of EdgeDB. (EdgeDB itself will be automatically installed if it isn’t already.) Alternatively you can specify a specific version with --version.

$ 

edgedb instance create my_instance --version 2.1

$ 

edgedb instance create my_instance --version nightly

We can execute a query against our new instance with edgedb query. Specify which instance to connect to by passing an instance name into the -I flag.

$ 

edgedb query "select 3.14" -I my_instance

3.14

$ 

edgedb instance stop -I my_instance

$ 

edgedb instance start -I my_instance

$ 

edgedb instance restart -I my_instance

$ 

edgedb instance destroy -I my_instance

$ 

edgedb instance list

┌────────┬──────────────────┬──────────┬────────────────┬──────────┐
│ Kind   │ Name             │ Port     │ Version        │ Status   │
├────────┼──────────────────┼──────────┼────────────────┼──────────┤
│ local  │ my_instance      │ 10700    │ 4.x+cc4f3b5    │ active   │
│ local  │ my_instance_2    │ 10701    │ 4.x+cc4f3b5    │ active   │
│ local  │ my_instance_3    │ 10702    │ 4.x+cc4f3b5    │ active   │
└────────┴──────────────────┴──────────┴────────────────┴──────────┘

$ 

edgedb instance --help