pgFormatter vs Valk Guard
pgFormatter
github.comValk Guard
github.comSide by side
| Figure | pgFormatter | Valk Guard |
|---|---|---|
| Price from | Free | — |
| Free plan | Yes | — |
| Free trial | — | — |
| Open source | — | — |
| Web | Yes | — |
| Windows | — | Yes |
| macOS | — | Yes |
| Linux | Yes | Yes |
| API | Yes | — |
| Self-hosted | Yes | — |
| Plans published | 1 | 0 |
| Spec score · SQL Linters and Formatters | 8.2 (#6) | 6.7 (#26) |
| Installation | The README documents installation from a GitHub source tarball using Perl Makefile.PL, make, and make install. | The project provides prebuilt Linux, macOS, and Windows binaries and a Go install option. |
| Purpose | pgFormatter beautifies PostgreSQL SQL queries and PL/pgSQL code, and supports keywords from several SQL standards as well as PostgreSQL-specific keywords. | Valk Guard is a SQL linter that scans raw SQL and application code to catch risky queries before they merge. |
Plans
In their own words
pgFormatter
pgFormatter is free software for formatting PostgreSQL SQL queries and PL/pgSQL code. It supports SQL-92, SQL-99, SQL-2003, SQL-2008, SQL-2011 and PostgreSQL syntax, and the project says it also works with other databases. You can run it as a console program or CGI application that returns text or HTML; a CGI request with an application/json Accept header can return JSON. Formatting controls cover keyword, function, identifier and type case, indentation, query wrapping and comma placement. The --anonymize option hides query literals before formatting. The project documents source installation with Perl Makefile.PL, make and make install, Docker use, Vim and (Neo)Vim integration, Atom and Visual Studio Code links, and a pre-commit hook for SQL files. An online demo limits queries to ten thousand characters. It is distributed under the PostgreSQL Licence at free.