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2020-03-09

• 08:12 UTC (new) 2020-03-09 Using Org-mode as a PostgreSQL client . . . . Marcin Borkowski – I often have to write more or less complex SQL queries. In case of the easy ones, there is no problem – I just write them and that’s it. With more complex queries, however, it is very useful to adopt an incremental technique – writing them piece by piece. One of the best tools for such “incremental programming” is of course the REPL. In case of SQL (PostgreSQL in my case), this is usually solved with psql. While it has lots of nice features, editing a multiline query within it is not the nicest experience in the world. My first attempt to solving this problem was to use psql​‘s \e command. If given in the line on its own, it launches the default system editor with the previous query. While the readline library used by psql is fine, it is not very helpful in case of long, multiline queries – in such a case, a real editor like Emacs or Vim (or even a toy editor like everything else;-)) seems much better. After some time, however, I had an even better idea.

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