pspg 5.2.0 released

https://github.com/okbob/pspg/releases/tag/5.2.0

There are only two, but I hope important, features.

First feature is "progressive data load". Before this release, pspg loaded all rows before first print to screen. Now, with progressive data load, only 500 rows are loaded, these rows are printed to screen, and repeatedly next 2000 rows are loaded. Although the load should not be complete, almost all pspg commands can be used.  

pspg is designed for browsing tabular data. But it can be used for plain text too. This is important - psql can produce lot of data in plain text format - (\? \h). Now, pspg can highlight some parts of these documents.

pspg 5.1.2 was released, psql \watch command now supports pspg

Today I released pspg 5.1.2. Mostly this is bugfix and refactoring release, but there is one, I hope, interesting function. You can try to press Ctrl o for temporal switch to terminal's primary screen. In primary screen you can see psql session. After pressing any key, the terminal switch to alternative screen with pspg.

Thanks to Tomas Munro work, the psql \watch command will supports pagers (in PostgreSQL 15). In this time only pspg can do this work (in streaming mode). When you set environment variable PSQL_WATCH_PAGER, the \watch command redirects otputs to specified pager (for pspg export PSQL_WATCH_PAGER="pspg --stream". Next you can run command:

select * from pg_stat_database \watch 5

or

select * from pg_stat_activity where state='active' \watch 1