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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
  4. …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
  5. Repo at https://github.com/okbob/pspg
    comment by steve-chavez · 2023-05-18 · in Pspg – Postgres Pager[video]
  6. 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
  7. Link to github: https://github.com/okbob/pspg
    comment by boshomi · 2021-03-06 · in Pspg – Pager for Postgres [video]
  8. 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
  9. 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
  10. …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?
  11. …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?
  12. 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