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+WEBVTT captioned by eric
+
+NOTE Introduction
+
+1
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+Hi, this is a short presentation about PGmacs,
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+2
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+which is a browsing and editing interface for
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+Postgres databases.
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+My name is Eric Marsden, and I'm the
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+developer of this Emacs Lisp library.
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+PGmacs was inspired by sqlite-mode, which is a
+
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+great feature available from Emacs 29 onwards.
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+It allows you to view and modify SQLite
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+databases you might have lying around.
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+It's a really great feature.
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+It would be even better, however, if it
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+were able to use a real database.
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+And I happen to know that was possible
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+because a few years ago, I wrote an
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+Emacs Lisp library, pg.el, which implements the wire
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+protocol used for communication over the network between
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+a Postgres client and the Postgres backend, the
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+Postgres server.
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+I've included here an example of what it
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+looks like to use this library.
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+You connect to the database by specifying the
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+database name, your username, your password, potentially the
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+23
+00:01:01.520 --> 00:01:03.099
+hostname that you're connecting to.
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+00:01:03.800 --> 00:01:06.680
+Once you're connected, you can then execute SQL
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+statements, for example, to create a new table,
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+to insert values into that table, and to
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+count the number of rows in a table.
+
+28
+00:01:17.100 --> 00:01:20.300
+And pg.el does automatic type conversion to
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+and from Emacs Lisp types and Postgres types for
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+you.
+
+NOTE Demo
+
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+Probably the best is to jump straight into
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+32
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+a demo of PGmacs.
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+When we connect to a database, we see
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+up the top of the buffer, some information
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+about the backend that we're connected to, some
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+version information and the total database size on
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+disk.
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+There are some shortcuts to some commands we
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+can run on the database, and there's a
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+list of tables that we have access to,
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+with again, metainformation about their size on
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+disk and their owner.
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+Now, we can enter a table by pressing
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+return.
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+Here we again see some metainformation about
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+00:02:01.230 --> 00:02:04.210
+the table, such as the list of columns,
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+the SQL type of each column, any defaults
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+that might be present and any SQL constraints.
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+We see any indexes that might be present
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+on this table, and then we see the
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+list of rows of data in the table.
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+If we see any information which is incorrect
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+or incomplete, we can easily fix it by
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+pressing enter again, and this updates the information
+
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+present in the database.
+
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+PGmacs shows us this in the minibuffer
+
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+it has updated one row.
+
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+We can look at help for the key
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+bindings that are present in this type of
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+buffer.
+
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+If we scroll down, we can see that
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+we can upcase the value of a cell
+
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+with M-u.
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+Let's try that out.
+
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+Okay, here we have updated the value of
+
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+the cell in the database.
+
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+We can now lowercase it, and we can
+
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+put it back to the initial
+
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+title case of the value.
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+We can also run a shell command on
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+00:03:11.550 --> 00:03:14.570
+a cell value, to count the number of
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+characters, for example.
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+We can run a shell command with a
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+prefix argument, which updates the value in the
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+database with the output from the shell command.
+
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+So that has updated the database.
+
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+If we do that again, that will reverse
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+the value. If we come back
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+to the list of tables, we see
+
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+that there is a table which is called
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+deleteme.
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+We can try renaming this table with R,
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+we can look at what is in this
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+table.
+
+NOTE Deletion
+
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+Okay, there is only one row of information
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+that doesn't seem very important, so let's delete
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+that.
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+Let's now delete the table with DEL.
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+PGmacs asks for confirmation, and we've deleted the
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+table.
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+Now when we have a big table with
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+a lot of data, PGmacs is going to
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+show us the results paginated, so we can
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+go chunk by chunk through the table.
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+We can implement a where filter on the
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+rows to only show the rows that match
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+a certain SQL clause.
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+So for example, here we have some temperature
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+measurements.
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+We want to focus on measurements that are
+
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+more than 40 degrees Celsius, for example.
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+Okay, we have now filtered on a certain
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+number of rows.
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+The filter is shown to us just up
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+here, and we see here that we have
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+some values that look anomalous.
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+There's one, 140, and one is 61.
+
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+We probably want to delete them, they represent
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+errors.
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+We can mark them for deletion with d,
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+and then really delete them, expunge them, as
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+in Dired, with x.
+
+NOTE Export
+
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+We can export this table in CSV format,
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+thanks to this little button up here.
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+Here we have our table conveniently formatted as
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+CSV.
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+We can also export a particular row to
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+JSON by typing j, let's look at
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+what that looks like.
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+Okay, here's the JSON for one of the
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+rows in the table.
+
+NOTE HStore
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+Now let's look at a table that contains
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+a column of type HStore.
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+This is a Postgres-specific key-value map.
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+Then the attributes column is of type
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+JSON, which can be stored natively in Postgres.
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+It's possible to edit these values using a
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+widget-based interface by typing w, and here
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+we have a convenient interface for modifying these
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+types of values.
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+Likewise, for the JSON type parameter, we can
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+update using a widget-based interface.
+
+NOTE Connecting to a different database
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+Let's connect to a different database.
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+We do that with a M-x pgmacs, and
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+then enter our username and password.
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+Here we have the list of tables present
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+in this database.
+
+NOTE SchemaSpy
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+PGmacs has some support for running the SchemaSpy
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+utility, which generates a graphical representation of the
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+relationships between tables in this database, which can
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+be useful when you're discovering the database.
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+Here is the SVG that's output by this
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+utility.
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+This is a test database containing information about
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+a digital media store.
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+It has a table with information about the
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+tracks that are available.
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+If we look at this table, we
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+see that we have the name of the
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+track, a reference to the album, album ID.
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+This is a reference to a foreign key,
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+a key in the table which is called
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+album.
+
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+Now we can follow this foreign key reference
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+simply by pressing Enter, and here we find
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+it's the album called For Those About To
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+Rock.
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+And in the same way, here we have
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+a foreign key reference to the relevant artist
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+which we can follow.
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+That's, of course, AC/DC.
+
+NOTE Convenience queries
+
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+And finally, PGmacs has some convenience queries that
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+allows us to list the procedures which are
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+defined in this database.
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+Here we have the built-in procedures, mostly
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+used by the PostGIS extension.
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+We can also display some more information about
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+our backend.
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+Here we have the list of extensions which
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+are available.
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+We can load one of these extensions if
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+we have the rights to do that.
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+Here we've loaded the relevant extension.
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+We can show some information about the Postgres
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+settings also, and update them if we have
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+the rights to do that.
+
+NOTE Emacs as an application development platform
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+Now I'm preaching to the converted, but Emacs
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+is a really great application development platform.
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+PGmacs is currently around 3000 lines of code.
+
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+A first point of comparison, PGCLI, which is
+
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+a text user interface for accessing Postgres implemented
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+in Python, is 17,000 lines of code.
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+PGAdmin4, which is a well-known Python GUI
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+for administrating Postgres databases, is almost half a
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+million lines of code.
+
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+And DBeaver, implemented in Java, is almost a
+
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+million lines of code.
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+Developing things on Emacs, you get for
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+free portability between different platforms.
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+As I'm showing you, it works great on
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+Linux, which is where I developed this library.
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+It also works perfectly in the terminal, except
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+for some of the functionality I showed, which
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+requires SVG support.
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+It also works well, if you're into that
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+kind of thing, on MacOS and on Windows.
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+And it even works perfectly on Haiku, which
+
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+is a free BeOS clone.
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+Emacs is actually really pretty on this operating
+
+200
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+system, so congratulations to the people who did
+
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+the port there.
+
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+Now, of course, the main advantage of building
+
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+on the Emacs development platform, is that the
+
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+application is easy for the user to extend.
+
+NOTE Extending pgmacs
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+To illustrate that, previously we were looking at
+
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+00:09:38.690 --> 00:09:40.650
+a table of temperature measurements.
+
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+Imagine we want to highlight rows in this
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+table, which look anomalous, where the value looks
+
+209
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+a bit extreme.
+
+210
+00:09:50.090 --> 00:09:52.150
+That's quite easy to do with a bit
+
+211
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+of Emacs Lisp.
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+We define a function, which, if the cell
+
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+value is bigger than 40, is going to
+
+214
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+display it in a face which has a
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+dark red foreground.
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+We can now register this display function for
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+the measurement column in the temperatures table.
+
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+And if we reopen the table now, we
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+see that the anomalous measurements are indeed highlighted
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+in red.
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+Another example, imagine we have a table which
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+contains image data.
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+There's a column which is of BYTEA type,
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+which contains images in binary form.
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+We can display these inline as follows.
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+We create an inline image display function, using
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+Emacs' image support.
+
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+And then we'd register this function to display
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+the image column in the inline image table.
+
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+If we now reopen the inline image table,
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+we see the images are displayed inline.
+
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+And as a final example of customisation, here's
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+how to bind a key to a specific
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+function, in the row-list buffer.
+
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+Let's define a function that does a DuckDuckGo
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+lookup for a particular value in
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+the Emacs web browser.
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+We can define a function which does a
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+funcall on the cell value for this
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+DuckDuckGo lookup function.
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+And finally we can define a key, the
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+capital D key, in the row-list map,
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+which calls this function that does a
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+DuckDuckGo lookup.
+
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+And now if I'm browsing information in a
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+table that I want to do a web
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+search on, I can use my D shortcut
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+and see some web results concerning the cell.
+
+NOTE Conclusion
+
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+So to conclude, the source and installation instructions
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+for PGmacs are available on GitHub.
+
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+It requires Emacs 29.
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+There is a prebuilt container image which you
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+can use for testing.
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+It's a Docker image.
+
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+The Docker image only works in terminal mode.
+
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+And of course that's a recommended way of
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+testing Emacs Lisp code that you load
+
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+into your Emacs before having read it.
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+It works with any recent version of Postgres
+
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+over the past 10 years, including the latest
+
+261
+00:12:18.580 --> 00:12:19.900
+release, Postgres 17.
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+It does work with a certain number of
+
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+00:12:22.700 --> 00:12:26.440
+databases that are compatible with Postgres, such as
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+00:12:26.440 --> 00:12:30.360
+ParadeDB, TimescaleDB and IvorySQL.
+
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+00:12:30.940 --> 00:12:33.560
+However, it doesn't work with all databases that
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+00:12:33.560 --> 00:12:35.340
+claim to be Postgres compatible.
+
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+It doesn't work, for example, with CrateDB or
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+with CockroachDB or some others that you see
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+listed here.
+
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+00:12:40.760 --> 00:12:42.660
+The reason for that is that these databases
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+00:12:42.660 --> 00:12:46.440
+don't implement the system tables that PGmacs queries
+
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+to obtain information about the columns present in
+
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+00:12:49.600 --> 00:12:52.220
+a table, the size on disk, the ownership
+
+274
+00:12:52.220 --> 00:12:53.560
+of tables, etc.
+
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+PGmacs supports TLS encrypted connections to the database,
+
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+as well as local Unix socket connections.
+
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+00:13:02.040 --> 00:13:04.600
+And in terms of stability, I would classify
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+it as beta status.
+
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+I do use it myself in production on
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+some not very important data.
+
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+Really, it works quite well.
+
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+Thanks for your attention.