microsoft / microsoft/vscode-pgsql
Display table columns and properties with keyboard shortcut
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Description
The SQLTools extension coupled with the PostgreSQL driver has a keyboard shortcut of "cmd+e;cmd+d" that opens the command palette with a drop-down of all the tables in the active database. From there, select the table, and the window in the editor shows all of the columns and their properties in the table. Please do something similar. It can open PostgreSQL in the sidebar and expand the selected table instead of a new window in the editor. Just anything besides having to use the mouse to click through multiple nodes in the tree in the display the table and columns.
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Start by investigating the SQLTools extension and PostgreSQL driver behavior described in the issue, then locate the PostgreSQL sidebar's table-tree and command handling. Define the keyboard flow and how the selected table should be expanded; done means a shortcut can select a table and reveal its columns and properties without repeated mouse navigation.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- postgresql
- Domain
- databases
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 25/100