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In my opinion, psql is the "perfect" terminal database client. It's fast, has the ability to easily switch between wide and narrow row formats, and has commands for the things I do frequently.

I have often wanted psql to work with other databases, because the other CLI clients are either bare-bones, or just plain unusable.



https://github.com/xo/usql has a similar feel to it, with a variety of backends.


It works, but faaaaaaar from perfect! Perfect would include a lot more things like auto completion, syntax highlighting etc etc etc


psql’s very good, but duckdb’s CLI made me wish psql had some of its features.




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