postdoc 1.0.0

About

A wrapper that wraps a postgres command with connection arguments according to the DATABASE_URL environment variable.

I originally made this because manually typing the connection args to pqsl, createdb, etc. became tiring. “Ain’t nobody got time for dat”.

Let’s say your environment is like this:

$ env | grep DATABASE_URL
DATABASE_URL=postgres://docker@127.0.0.1/elevators

You could type:

$ createdb -U docker -h 127.0.0.1 elevators
createdb elevators

Or with PostDoc:

$ phd createdb
createdb -U docker -h 127.0.0.1 elevators
createdb elevators

Docker doesn’t really have anything to do with this. But now that I’ve been using Docker to manage my Postgres databases, I can’t use defaults anymore.

But wait, there’s more!

You can do MySQL stuff too:

$ phd mysql
mysql -u docker -h 127.0.0.1 --database elevators
Reading table information for completion of table and column names
You can turn off this feature to get a quicker startup with -A

$ phd mysqlcheck --auto-repair
mysqlcheck -u docker -h 127.0.0.1 elevators --auto-repair

If your database url isn’t DATABASE_URL, you can connect to it by making it the first argument:

$ export FATTYBASE_URL=postgres://fatty@fat/phat
$ phd FATTYBASE_URL psql
psql -U fatty -h fat phat

Installation

Install with pip:

pip install postdoc

Extras

Add the flag –postdoc-dry-run to just print the command.

Add the flag –postdoc-quiet to execute the command without printing the debugging line.

Aliases:

alias dphd="phd --postdoc-dry-run"
alias qphd="phd --postdoc-quiet"