From: Andrew G. Hammond <drew@xyzzy.dhs.org>
To: Andrew Perrin <clists@perrin.socsci.unc.edu>
Cc: Philip Hallstrom <philip@adhesivemedia.com>
Cc: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: SQL formatter?
Date: Sat, 28 Sep 2002 23:08:49 -0400
Message-ID: <3D966EC1.3080508@xyzzy.dhs.org> (raw)
References: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0209261148370.11079-100000@perrin.socsci.unc.edu>
There's a tool called TXL that, given an SQL grammar can pretty print
it. (a semantically aware code transformation tool is massive overkill
for the job, but what the hell... :)
Andrew Perrin wrote:
>Unfortunately it is Windows based. The emacs mode for SQL is pretty
>primitive too. Oh well - maybe I'll write one someday.
>
>Thanks,
>Andy
>
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>
>On Wed, 25 Sep 2002, Philip Hallstrom wrote:
>
>
>
>>Looks to be windows based, but...
>>
>>http://www.techno-kitten.com/PBL_Peeper/Online_Manual/SQL_Formatter/sql_formatter.html
>>
>>first hit when searching on google for "sql formatter". there were a lot
>>of other options...
>>
>>You might look at how some of those C code indenter's work. Seems like
>>some of them support multiple languages which means they maybe have some
>>sort of "language definition" so maybe you could just write a sql one and
>>it would just work. Of course I've never used one and don't know anything
>>about it really so I could be wrong :)
>>
>>-philip
>>
>>On Wed, 25 Sep 2002, Andrew Perrin wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>>>Does anyone know of a routine for formatting SQL statements in a
>>>structured way? Standalone or for emacs would be fine. I'm thinking of
>>>something that could take a long SQL text statement and format it, e.g.:
>>>
>>>select foo from bar where baz and bop and not boo;
>>>
>>>becomes
>>>
>>>SELECT foo
>>>FROM bar
>>>WHERE baz
>>> AND bop
>>> AND NOT boo
>>>;
>>>
>>>Thanks,
>>>Andy
>>>
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>>>Andrew J Perrin - http://www.unc.edu/~aperrin
>>>Assistant Professor of Sociology, U of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
>>>clists@perrin.socsci.unc.edu * andrew_perrin (at) unc.edu
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