ErwinDB, a TUI to view 7k Stack Overflow answers by Postgres expert
Details
- External ID
- 46868018
- Source
- HN
- Company
- —
- Product
- ErwinDB, a TUI to view 7k Stack Overflow answers by Postgres expert
- Website domain
- github.com
- Launched
- Feb. 3, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 5
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.10512129380053908
- Tags
- —
- Fetched at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
Description
Erwin Brandstetter is a PostgreSQL consultant with ~670k reputation and ~7k answers on Stack Overflow.Over the years, I've lost count of how often I've searched Stack Overflow for a Postgres question and ended up with an answer by Erwin Brandstetter that was exceptionally thorough and clear. I've become a better developer by learning from his responses.ErwinDB lets you browse Erwin Brandstetter's answers offline and search them quickly from a TUI. It includes semantic search, syntax highlighting, one-key opening of links in your external browser, and an "Erwin mode" that prominently highlights his posts.
Enrichment
- Theme
- database infrastructure and developer tools
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Dev tools
- Audience
- Developer
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- postgres expert answers viewer
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes It is a straightforward terminal reader app wrapping a static SQLite database or scraped dataset of public Stack Overflow posts.
Discussion
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Competitors
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