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Unix pager (with very rich functionality) designed for work with tables. Designed for PostgreSQL, but MySQL is supported too. Works well with pgcli too. Can be used as CSV or TSV viewer too. It supports searching, selecting rows, columns, or block and export selected area to clipboard.

19 mentions on Hacker News by 18 people: 7 stories, 12 comments · first 2017-09-20 · latest 2025-01-31

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  1. …if something is large (text, arrays, etc) all bets are off. Basically, something like this: https://github.com/okbob/pspg --- The second thing that is very hard with debuggers, is to tell them what to skip . In the normal sense of 'I don't…
    comment by mamcx · 2025-01-31 · in Show HN: Uscope, a new Linux debugger written from scratch
  2. My tip is a better pager for psql: https://github.com/okbob/pspg
    comment by abobov · 2024-11-13 · in What I wish someone told me about Postgres
  3. …It was originally created for Postgres (hence the name), but also works with MySQL and others https://github.com/okbob/pspg
    comment by hans_castorp · 2024-01-05 · in Harlequin: SQL IDE for Your Terminal
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    Pspg: Unix pager designed for work with tables
    story by MarkusWinand · 2023-12-15 · 0 comments
  5. …Psql is great , but lacks autocompletion in several places. That said, a big shoutout to pspg ( https://github.com/okbob/pspg ) - an excellent pager for psql (also for general csvs).
    comment by mbork_pl · 2023-08-06 · in Postgres Language Server
  6. Repo at https://github.com/okbob/pspg
    comment by steve-chavez · 2023-05-18 · in Pspg – Postgres Pager[video]
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    PostgreSQL and Tabular Data Pager
    story by alex_hirner · 2023-04-02 · 0 comments
  8. pspg ( https://github.com/okbob/pspg ) is wonderful for tabular data.
    comment by dmfay · 2023-01-06 · in Show HN: Ov – feature rich terminal pager
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    Pspg – Postgres Pager
    story by gjvc · 2021-12-23 · 0 comments
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    Pspg – Unix pager designed for work with tables and use with PostgreSQL/MySQL
    story by pabs3 · 2021-09-26 · 0 comments
  11. Link to github: https://github.com/okbob/pspg
    comment by boshomi · 2021-03-06 · in Pspg – Pager for Postgres [video]
  12. pgcli is nice and it works great with pspg pager [ https://github.com/okbob/pspg ] ''\pager /usr/local/bin/pspg''
    comment by resheku · 2020-11-16 · in Psql command line tutorial and cheat sheet
  13. And to complement that , I recommend Postgres Pager ( https://github.com/okbob/pspg )
    comment by felixyz · 2020-11-16 · in Psql command line tutorial and cheat sheet
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    Pspg: Table-Aware Pager for PostgreSQL
    story by fanf2 · 2019-09-05 · 1 comment
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    Pspg – Unix pager designed for work with tables
    story by soheilpro · 2019-08-26 · 0 comments
  16. …multiplexer https://github.com/tmux/tmux - pspg: postgres pager (you can combine it with pgcli) https://github.com/okbob/pspg reply
    comment by zodiac · 2018-05-07 · in Ask HN: What are your favorite terminal programs?
  17. …multiplexer https://github.com/tmux/tmux - pspg: postgres pager (you can combine it with pgcli) https://github.com/okbob/pspg
    comment by Dowwie · 2018-05-07 · in Ask HN: What are your favorite terminal programs?
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    Pspg – Postgres Pager
    story by willlll · 2017-11-16 · 21 comments
  19. Step 1: clone the project repo: https://github.com/okbob/pspg Step 2: ./configure, make, and make install Step 3: update your shell config (.bashrc, .zshrc, ...), exporting as follows: "export PAGER="pspg" -- you can update this command to…
    comment by Dowwie · 2017-09-20 · in Postgres pager