databow: a Rust CLI to query any database with an ADBC driver

Re:databow: a Rust CLI to query any database with an ADBC dr... by wodenokoto on Friday June 05, 2026 @07:57AM (#48411205)

My biggest pain point with using different cli to connect to different databases is that they all do things like listing tables differently.

Another nice feature one would want from such a program is of course auto complete.

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Re:databow: a Rust CLI to query any database with an ADBC dr... by data_ders on Friday June 05, 2026 @09:03AM (#48411892)

Yeah for me standardization is the big win. But not just output formatting but cli commands and a guarantee that they’re as past as possible given that all the connectors use ADBC

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Re:databow: a Rust CLI to query any database with an ADBC dr... by adonese on Friday June 05, 2026 @12:51PM (#48415165)

I find this to put my psql in a better place as a daily driver. Adding this to ~/.inputrc [1] will allow you to limit search on your entered text. Eg.

select (up arrow)

will loop through your psql history for commands that started with e.g., . The challenging part is in wide tables and or table with large data. Less is awkward usually so using pspg made it less awkward.

I tried also to with help of ai, to write a plugin for sublime that fits my flow. It worked well but I think I'm more used to psql.

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~/.inputrc

$if psql "\e[A": history-search-backward "\e[B": history-search-forward $endif

edit: formatting

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