I'm stuck. What am I doing wrong?

Backend Development
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In the Learn SQL by Building a Student Database: Part 1 I am stuck. In the hint it says 1. Use the ALTER TABLE , ADD COLUMN , and INT keywords
2. Here’s an example: ALTER TABLE <table_name> ADD COLUMN <column_name> <DATA_TYPE>;
3. Type ALTER TABLE students ADD COLUMN major_id INT; into the psql

promptcodeally@7c9db0a6d1e9:~/project$ ALTER TABLE students ADD COLUMN major_id INT;
bash: ALTER: command not found

What am I doing wrong? I cannot move forward.

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you need to connect to your database first. Try to use “psql --username=freecodecamp dbname=postgres” - without quotes (or your own database name, where you are creating your table).
You can switch to a needed database if you don’t remember its name - just see what databases you have with “\l” command and connect with “\c <database_name>”