How do I install just the client tools for PostgreSQL on Windows?

Question

I have a PostgreSQL database on a Linux system that I want to access from my Windows PC. But the only Windows binaries I have been able to find are the full installer, which

Answer 1

Thanks to everyone who has posted on this thread.

For what it's worth, I got psql.exe from PostgreSQL 10.10 working under Windows 10 with just the following files from the zip archive:

libcrypto-1_1-x64.dll
libiconv-2.dll
libintl-8.dll
libpq.dll libssl-1_1-x64.dll
psql.exe

When connecting to AWS Redshift, I got the following error:

psql: FATAL: invalid value for parameter "client_encoding": "WIN1252"

I resolved this by running

set PGCLIENTENCODING=UTF8

I found this solution at https://forums.aws.amazon.com/thread.jspa?messageID=600088

HTH.