I already use pgcli, written in Python, in conjunction with pspg to tabulate results. I can't imagine what Usql would offer above what is already available through pgcli. Could anyone comment?
> usql is a great tool if you're familiar with Postgres' psql client and wish you could use it for other databases like MySQL, Cassandra etc.
> dbcli tools are designed to preserve the usage semantics of the existing tools but improve on them by providing auto-completion. For instance you can use `\d` in pgcli and `SHOW TABLES` in mycli. This was a conscious decision to make pgcli and mycli drop in replacements for of MySQL and psql. I was also working under the assumption that people rarely use multiple databases, you're either a postgres shop or a MySQL shop. If you have a mix of both, there is a good chance that not a single person is interacting with both of them on a daily basis. You have different teams using different databases. But my reasoning there could be flawed.
> There is nothing stopping someone from adding an adapter to the usql tool to make it behave like MySQL (because they like the mysql client better) based on a command line argument, for instance.