Release v0.18.0

Pgcli is a command line interface for Postgres database that does auto-completion and syntax highlighting. You can install this version by:

$ pip install -U pgcli

Check detailed instructions if you're having difficulty.

This release comes with the ability to save favorite queries, fuzzy matching in auto-completion, new special commands (\#), fix unicode issues in Windows and lot more. Thanks to the many contributors.

Features:

  • Add fuzzy matching for the table names and column names.

    Matching very long table/column names are now easier with fuzzy matching. The fuzzy match works like the fuzzy open in SublimeText or Vim's Ctrl-P plugin.

    eg: Typing djmiviw will match django_migration_views since it is able to match parts of the input to the full table name.

  • Timing information is now shown in seconds.

    The Command Time and Format Time are now displayed in seconds instead of a unitless number displayed in scientific notation.

  • Support for named queries (favorite queries). (Thanks: Brett Atoms)

    Frequently typed queries can now be saved and recalled using a name using newly added special commands (\n[+], \ns, \nd).

    eg:

# Save a query
pgcli> \ns simple select * from foo
saved

# List all saved queries
pgcli> \n+

# Execute a saved query
pgcli> \n simple

# Delete a saved query
pgcli> \nd simple
  • Pasting queries into the pgcli repl is orders of magnitude faster. (Thanks: Jonathan Slenders)
  • Add support for PGPASSWORD environment variable to pass the password for the postgres database. (Thanks: Iryna Cherniavska)
  • Add the ability to manually refresh autocompletions by typing \# or \refresh. This is useful if the database was updated by an external means and you'd like to refresh the auto-completions to pick up the new change.

Bug Fixes:

  • Fix an error when running \d table_name when running on a table with rules. (Thanks: Ali Kargın)
  • Fix a pgcli crash when entering non-ascii characters in Windows. (Thanks: Darik Gamble, Jonathan Slenders)
  • Faster rendering of expanded mode output by making the horizontal separator a fixed length string.
  • Completion suggestions for the \c command are not auto-escaped by default.

Internal Changes:

  • Complete refactor of handling the back-slash commands. It is now easier to add new special back-slash commands using a decorator.
  • Upgrade prompt_toolkit to 0.42. (Thanks: Jonathan Slenders)
  • Change the config file management to use ConfigObj.(Thanks: Brett Atoms)
  • Add integration tests using behave. (Thanks: Iryna Cherniavska)

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