[banku_brougham]

Having to define the schema is the major hangup for me in my workflow. I would prefer a wrapper that could run within unix pipelines around arbitrary text data files, but they all use SQLite.

I personally have been using harelba’s q (the un-googleable utility), which is just fine.

It would be great not to shift gears into SQLite syntax and date formatting all the time. Does anyone know of a similar tool that runs over postgres?

[chrisweekly]

> "prefer a wrapper that could run within unix pipelines around arbitrary text data files"

That sounds like [lnav](https://www.lnav.org).

For queries, it does use SQLite under the hood, but before querying your "arbitrary text data" files, you can use regex to define a custom format (eg with named groups and back references), providing structure against which standard SQL is an ideal tool to query.

It's simpler than I'm probably making it sound. Highly recommended.