This is a postgres client that does auto-completion and syntax highlighting.
Home Page: http://pgcli.com
MySQL Equivalent: http://mycli.net
If you already know how to install python packages, then you can simply do:
$ pip install -U pgcli or $ brew install pgcli # Only on OS X
If you don't know how to install python packages, please check the detailed instructions.
$ pgcli [database_name] or $ pgcli postgresql://[user[:password]@][netloc][:port][/dbname]
Examples:
$ pgcli local_database $ pgcli postgres://amjith:[email protected]:5432/app_db
The pgcli is written using prompt_toolkit.
Auto-completes as you type for SQL keywords as well as tables and columns in the database.
Syntax highlighting using Pygments.
Smart-completion (enabled by default) will suggest context-sensitive completion.
SELECT * FROM <tab>will only show table names.SELECT * FROM users WHERE <tab>will only show column names.
Config file is automatically created at
~/.config/pgcli/configat first launch.Primitive support for
psqlback-slash commands.Pretty prints tabular data. Note: pgcli uses [tabulate](https://github.com/dbcli/pgcli/blob/master/pgcli/packages/tabulate.py) package to pretty-print tables. This library does smart formatting of numbers, which can sometimes lead to unexpected output. See [this issue](dbcli#617) for more details.
If you're interested in contributing to this project, first of all I would like to extend my heartfelt gratitude. I've written a small doc to describe how to get this running in a development setup.
https://github.com/dbcli/pgcli/blob/master/DEVELOP.rst
Please feel free to reach out to me if you need help. My email: [email protected], Twitter: @amjithr
Easiest way to install pgcli is using brew. Please be aware that this will install postgres via brew if it wasn't installed via brew.
$ brew install pgcli
Done!
If you have postgres installed via a different means (such as PostgresApp), you
can brew install --build-from-source pgcli which will skip installing
postgres via brew if postgres is available in the path.
Alternatively, you can install pgcli as a python package using a package
manager called called pip. You will need postgres installed on your system
for this to work.
In depth getting started guide for pip - https://pip.pypa.io/en/latest/installing.html.
$ which pip
If it is installed then you can do:
$ pip install pgcli
If that fails due to permission issues, you might need to run the command with sudo permissions.
$ sudo pip install pgcli
If pip is not installed check if easy_install is available on the system.
$ which easy_install $ sudo easy_install pgcli
In depth getting started guide for pip - https://pip.pypa.io/en/latest/installing.html.
Check if pip is already available in your system.
$ which pip
If it doesn't exist, use your linux package manager to install pip. This might look something like:
$ sudo apt-get install python-pip # Debian, Ubuntu, Mint etc or $ sudo yum install python-pip # RHEL, Centos, Fedora etc
pgcli requires python-dev, libpq-dev and libevent-dev packages. You can
install these via your operating system package manager.
$ sudo apt-get install python-dev libpq-dev libevent-dev or $ sudo yum install python-devel postgresql-devel
Then you can install pgcli:
$ sudo pip install pgcli
A special thanks to Jonathan Slenders for creating Python Prompt Toolkit, which is quite literally the backbone library, that made this app possible. Jonathan has also provided valuable feedback and support during the development of this app.
This app includes the awesome tabulate library for pretty printing the output of tables. The reason for vendoring this library rather than listing it as a dependency in setup.py, is because I had to make a change to the table format which is merged back into the original repo, but not yet released in PyPI.
Click is used for command line option parsing and printing error messages.
Thanks to psycopg for providing a rock solid interface to Postgres database.
Thanks to all the beta testers and contributors for your time and patience. :)