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by dharbin 735 days ago
In my opinion, psql is the "perfect" terminal database client. It's fast, has the ability to easily switch between wide and narrow row formats, and has commands for the things I do frequently.

I have often wanted psql to work with other databases, because the other CLI clients are either bare-bones, or just plain unusable.

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https://github.com/xo/usql has a similar feel to it, with a variety of backends.
It works, but faaaaaaar from perfect! Perfect would include a lot more things like auto completion, syntax highlighting etc etc etc
psql’s very good, but duckdb’s CLI made me wish psql had some of its features.