feature: support for piping into jq

[bjne]

jq (https://stedolan.github.io/jq/) is a great tool for pretty-printing json. Is it possible to add support
for piping a json column into jq from pspg?

generic piping support with the "|" char would be awesome

[okbob]

I don't think so it is possible. pspg cannot do any operation that can break formatting of input. Any transformation should be done before psql does tabular output. I can imagine so this library can be wrapped and called directly from SQL.

[bjne]

I am not sure I get you, what I am thinking is:

• pspg opens as normal with no data manipulation
• possible to select a column (like one does with the "hold column"/with arrow keys)
• pressing | will allow me to pipe the content of this row/column into a external program
• jq (in this example) should then be forked and given the column data on stdin

[okbob]

I am afraid so I am not get it. Why you don't do it directly from psql?