New Postgres Language Server: postgres-lsp
Posted on 2026-06-21 by Gavin M. Roy
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Built on tree-sitter-postgres, postgres-lsp implements the Language Server Protocol for PostgreSQL SQL and PL/pgSQL. Point your editor at it for .sql files and get diagnostics, navigation, completion, and formatting backed by real PostgreSQL grammar rather than regex heuristics.
Features
- Diagnostics — Parse errors from tree-sitter reported as LSP diagnostics
- Semantic Tokens — Syntax highlighting via semantic token classification
- Document Symbols — Outline of DDL statements (tables, functions, views, etc.)
- Workspace Symbols — Search across all open files
- Go to Definition — Navigate to table, function, type, and column definitions
- Find References — Find all usages of a symbol across the workspace
- Hover — Show definition source on hover
- Completion — Context-aware completion for keywords, tables, columns, and functions
- Signature Help — Parameter hints for function calls
- Folding Ranges — Collapse multi-line statements
- Rename — Rename symbols across the workspace
- Code Actions — Quick fixes and refactor rewrites
- Formatting — Reformat SQL using the styles supported by libpgfmt: river, mozilla, aweber, dbt, gitlab, kickstarter, mattmc3, pg_dump
- PL/pgSQL Support — Parses PL/pgSQL function bodies with language injection
Binaries and Installation instructions are available @ https://github.com/gmr/postgres-lsp.