PGCHARTS(1)

NAME
pgcharts - PostgreSQL data loader

SYNOPSIS
pgcharts [options] [command-file]...

DESCRIPTION
pgcharts is The PostgreSQL Extension Installer server.

OPTIONS

-h, --help
    Show command usage summary and exit.

-V, --version
    Show pgcharts version string and exit.

-c, --config
    Use the given configuration file (default to "~/.pgcharts.ini").

COMMANDS
The pgcharts binary allows running and controling the pgcharts embedded web server.

  CONFIGURATION CONTROL
While it's possible to ship a configuration file or to prepare it by hand, the following commands allow to control the setup from the command line.

•   config [ name ] [ value ]

    Without arguments, print the whole configuration file content. When given a variable name, print its current value. When given both a name and a value, set the configuration variable to the given value.

•   config get <name>

    Print the current value of the configuration variable name.

•   config set <name> <value>

    Set the variable name to the given value.

  SERVER CONTROL
The PostgreSQL Extension Installer comes with a PostgreSQL plugin that downloads static files: that part doesn't need any server at all. This server is meant to be used by maintainers of a set of extension archives, when they want to ease the maintenance and setup of the building.

•   start

    Start the embedded pgcharts HTTP server on the port it's been setup to listen to, which defaults to 8042. The

•   stop

    Stops the server.

•   status

    Print the result of querying the HTTP status API against the (hopefully) running server.

•   pid

    Print the registered pid of the server process. This information might be stale in case of unexpected termination of the server.

•   setup <dburi>

    Connects to the PostgreSQL database specified with the dburi parameter and install the database model there.

  REGISTERING DATABASES
Once pgcharts is properly setup (see the setup command above) then it's necessary to add databases against which you want to run queries and draw charts.

•   register <dburi>

    Register given dburi.

DATABASE URI
The dburi connection string is expected to be given as a Connection URI as documented in the PostgreSQL documentation at http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.3/static/libpq-connect.html#LIBPQ-CONNSTRING.

    postgresql://[user[:password]@][netloc][:port][/dbname][?sslmode=...]

Where:

•   user

    Can contain any character, including colon (:) which must then be doubled (::) and at-sign (@) which must then be doubled (@@).

    When omitted, the user name defaults to the value of the PGUSER environment variable, and if it is unset, the value of the USER environment variable.

•   password

    Can contain any character, including that at sign (@) which must then be doubled (@@). To leave the password empty, when the user name ends with at at sign, you then have to use the syntax user:@.

    When omitted, the password defaults to the value of the PGPASSWORD environment variable if it is set, otherwise the password is left unset.

•   netloc

    Can be either a hostname in dotted notation, or an ipv4, or an Unix domain socket path. Empty is the default network location, under a system providing unix domain socket that method is preferred, otherwise the netloc default to localhost.

    It's possible to force the unix domain socket path by using the syntax unix:/path/to/where/the/socket/file/is, so to force a non default socket path and a non default port, you would have:

    postgresql://unix:/tmp:54321/dbname

    The netloc defaults to the value of the PGHOST environment variable, and if it is unset, to either the default unix socket path when running on a Unix system, and localhost otherwise.

•   dbname

    Should be a proper identifier (letter followed by a mix of letters, digits and the punctuation signs comma (,), dash (-) and underscore (_).

    When omitted, the dbname defaults to the value of the environment variable PGDATABASE, and if that is unset, to the user value as determined above.

•   The only optional parameter supported is sslmode and it accepts the values disable, allow, prefer and require.

AUTHOR
Dimitri Fontaine dimitri@2ndQuadrant.fr

SEE ALSO
The pgcharts source code and all documentation may be downloaded from https://github.com/dimitri/pgcharts/.