README.md

psqlrc-files

What you get:

• .psqlrc with a fancy prompt
• an extensible aliases system
• useful basic admin queries

Get started

Copy the .psqlrc* files to ~/. That's it! The next time you use psql from your shell, you'll have access to these predefined admin queries.

You'll see a colorized two-line prompt displaying the date, your initial login user, the host, the port, and the DB to which you've connected.

Add an aliases group

• add a directory at ~/.psqlrc-aliases/my_special_queries that contains the queries to be referenced in your index.

• add an index file at something like ~/.psqlrc-my_special_queries resembling the .psqlrc-admin file. Each entry will reference a single-query file in ~/.psqlrc-aliases/my_special_queries.

• Finally, at the bottom of .psqlrc add a line like this to link to your new aliases index:

  \ir .psqlrc-my_special_queries

That's it! The next time you use psql from your shell, you'll have access to these queries by the shortcuts you've defined.

Contributions

Please fork the repo and issue a pull request. Good additions are always welcome.