pgFormatter v5.1 has been released

Grenoble - September 28th, 2021

##pgFormatter 5.1 released

Version 5.1 of pgFormatter, a free and reliable tool used to format
SQL and PLPGSQL code, has been officially released and is publicly
available for download. A demonstration site is available online at
http://sqlformat.darold.net/

pgFormatter 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 is a maintenance release to fix issues reported by users since
the last six months. As usual there is also some improvements and
new features.

* Alternate format type (option -t) now keep enumeration in GROUP BY
clause on a single line.
* Add new option `-k` or `--keep-newline` to preserve empty line in plpgsql
code.
* Look for .pg_format configuration file in local directory first then
in the `$HOME` directory.
* Force UTF8 encoding for all I/O to solve unicode character in object
name parsing issues.

For the complete list of changes see: [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: [http://sqlformat.darold.net](http://sqlformat.darold.net/)
- Download1: [https://github.com/darold/pgFormatter/releases](https://github.com/darold/pgFormatter/releases)
- Download2: [http://sourceforge.net/projects/pgformatter/](http://sourceforge.net/projects/pgformatter/)
- 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)

##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 licence.