pgFormatter v5.6 has been released

Antananarivo, Madagascar - March 17th, 2025

## pgFormatter v5.6

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 release
with some improvements and new features.

New options and features:

* Add support to pg_vector operator `<#>`.
* Add support for the `(at)?` jsonb-jsonpath operator.
* Follow the XDG Base Directory Specification by searching configuration file
into `XDG_CONFIG_HOME/pg_format/config.conf`.
* Check `USERPROFILE` env var for Windows.
* Add to_reg* and reg* to function list.
* Add missing Perl modules in installation instructions.
* Add information about the Perl module to install for the JSON feature.
* Expand web capabilities of the app with adding API-like JSON capability to
the CGI module. The API can be disabled using the `enable_api` parameter to
the CGI (default: 1).
* Add option --redundant-parenthesis to prevent pgFormatter to remove
redundant parenthesis in DML.

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: [https://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 license.