Good idea, I'll switch this over to pgadmin-hackers. Thanks.
On Sat, Feb 1, 2014 at 10:06 AM, J.F. Oster <jinfros...@mail.ru> wrote: > Hello Shane, > > I'd like to see some code beautifier in PgAdmin too. > Do you already have an eye to a CLI tool for this job? > > I saw Free SQL Formatter (http://fsqlf.sourceforge.net/) under LGPL, > which seems ok. May be, we can adopt it as a built-in default > formatter (hope it will compile under MacOS, Solaris and FreeBSD). > If things go well, it can be developed to support Postgre's SQL > extensions and PL/pgSQL constructs as well. > > In short, seems a good idea to me, I could participate in it's > implementation :) > > P.S. Should this be posted to [pgadmin-hackers]? > > Saturday, February 1, 2014, 2:17:20 AM, you wrote: > SS> Hi list, > > SS> Just suggesting an idea. It would be really nice to be able > SS> to configure an external command to format SQL in pgAdmin. After > SS> configuring the external tool path in prefs, user hits a key combo > SS> (Shift-Ctrl F?) and the highlighted query text (or all text if > SS> none highlighted) gets run through the formatter and replaces the > SS> original text in the query window. Would be flexible for the user > SS> and seems fairly simple to implement in pgAdmin. Just a thought! > > > -- > Best regards, > J.F. > > > -- Shane StClair Software Engineer Axiom Consulting & Design http://www.axiomalaska.com
