Grenoble, France - February 11th, 2021
## pgFormatter v5.0
pgFormatter, even if not perfect, is the most advanced SQL and PlPgsql
code formatter and beautifier dedicated to PostgreSQL. It is provided
as a CLI or a CGI program.
This major release fixes issues reported by users since the last six
months with some improvements and new features.
New options and features:
* Add new option -M | --multiline to enable multi-line search
with placeholder regexp specified at command line with -p
or --placeholder.
* Fix improper handling of constants between quotes in all kind
of queries and especially in function body. They were sometime
corrupted by extra space before of after single quotes or some
words was identified as keywords and turned upper case.
* Add keywords ALWAYS, DISABLE, ENABLE, LEVEL and STORED.
* Improve formatting of CREATE POLICY which doesn't the need anymore
that alternate formatting (-t) be enabled.
* More fix of false positive keywords detection following their place.
* Add REGCLASS, REGCONFIG, REGDICTIONARY, REGNAMESPACE, REGOPER,
REGOPERATOR, REGPROC, REGPROCEDURE, REGROLE, REGTYPE, to list of
data types.
For the complete list of changes, please checkout the release note
on
[https://github.com/darold/pgFormatter/blob/master/ChangeLog](https://github.com/darold/pgFormatter/blob/master/ChangeLog)
## Links & Credits
Thank to the developers who submitted patches and users who reported
bugs and feature requests, they are all cited in the ChangeLog file.
pgFormatter is an open project. Any contribution to build a better
tool is welcome. You just have to send your ideas, features requests
or patches using the GitHub tools.
Links:
- Website: [http://sqlformat.darold.net/](http://sqlformat.darold.net/)
- Download:
[https://github.com/darold/pgFormatter/releases](https://github.com/darold/pgFormatter/releases)
- Development:
[https://github.com/darold/pgFormatter](https://github.com/darold/pgFormatter)
- Changelog:
[https://github.com/darold/pgFormatter/blob/master/ChangeLog]([https://github.com/darold/pgFormatter/blob/master/ChangeLog)
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**About pgFormatter**
pgFormatter is a SQL and PlPgsql formatter/beautifier that supports
keywords from SQL-92, SQL-99, SQL-2003, SQL-2008, SQL-2011 and
PostgreSQL specifics keywords. May works with any other databases
too. It shares the same code with pgBadger, so any improvement made
in the parser is reversed to pgBadger. Tool created and maintained
by Gilles Darold.
pgFormatter works on any platform and is available under the
PostgreSQL licence.
