Navicat for PostgreSQL

Additional Connection Options

Support of SSH Tunnel
Establish a secure SSH session through SSH Tunneling in Navicat. Enjoy a strong authentication and secure encrypted communications between two hosts. The authentication method can use a password or public / private key pair.

Support of HTTP Tunnel
Navicat comes with HTTP Tunneling while your ISPs do not allow direct connections to their database servers but allow establishing HTTP connections. HTTP Tunneling is a method for connecting to a server that uses the same protocol (http://) and the same port (port 80) as a webserver does.

Provide auto-reconnection for PostgreSQL server
You can keep the server connection alive using Keepalive Interval option. It prevents your connection from appearing idle, thus preventing your server from dropping the connection due to inactivity.

Import/Export Connection Settings
You can easily transfer your connection settings while migrating Navicat from one computer to another new machine. Simply export your connections via Navicat and restore it on the new machine.

Instant Navigation over Databases

Show databases as an open state once connection starts
Have your preferable databases opened right after the connection is made. Save your time and work more efficiently!

Powerful Visual Database Designer *only available in Enterprise Version

Support of Reverse Engineer
With the Reverse Engineer in Navicat, you can create a database model from an existing database and graphically visualize and edit the structure of your database. Or, you can graphically create a model, and generate a database that supports your model.

Compare and Synchronize between Model and Database
Synchronize to Database will give you the full picture of all databases differences. Once your databases are compared, you can view the differences and generate the necessary synchronization script to update the destination database and make it identical to your model. Flexible comparison and synchronization settings will enable you to set up a customized comparison key for comparison and for synchronization.

Support of SQL/DDL Script Generation
Export SQL gives you the opportunity to get a full control over the final SQL script, generate individual parts of your model, generate referential integrity rules, comments, character set etc. The Export SQL feature may save you hundreds of hours of your work.

Well-Designed Visual Builder/SQL Editor

Visual SQL Builder
Visual SQL Builder - which is divided into two portions: the upper Graphical View, and the lower Syntax View, allows you to create and edit queries/views visually without knowledge of SQL.

Query Editor
It allows you to create and edit SQL text for a query, prepare and execute selected queries.

Support of Parameter Query
Set query parameters to add variable values to a query each time you run it.

SQL Beautifier
With SQL Beautifier, you can format your SQL through a user-defined set of rules. This feature will increase your coding productivity and will improve the readability of your SQL code.

SQL Minifier
Eliminate unnecessary spaces, line breaks, and indentation come in handy if you want to copy and paste your SQL to anywhere without unwanted whitespaces.

Smart Code/Word completion support
Experience a quick way in constructing SQL statements in SQL Editor with the code/word completion feature. Whether you want to select available properties of database objects or SQL keywords, all it takes is a pick from the drop-down list.

Support of standard editing features
Indent and outdent, show line numbers, convert cases, zoom in/out and more.

Code Folding
Code Folding lets you collapse (hide) and expand (show) sections of your code to make it easier to navigate and read. What you need to do is just to click the plus (+) and minus (-) signs next to the code.

Matched Brace/Bracket Highlighting
when you place the cursor just after a closing (or just before an opening) brace, bracket, or parenthesis. Navicat will try to locate its matching brace, bracket, or parenthesis and highlight their companion with pre-defined colour.

Diversified Import and Export Competence

Import data from ODBC
You can import data from ODBC after setting up a data source connection. All available tables will be included if connection success. Just simply choose the tables you wish to import or specify a query using Add Query button.

Import data from up to 18 most popular formats including MS Access, MS Excel, XML, PDF and TXT
Import Wizard allows you to import data into a table from diverse format. On top of that, you can save your settings as an import profile for setting schedule.

Export data to MS Access, MS Excel, MS Word, HTML, PDF, TXT, CSV, DBF, XML, etc
Likewise, Export Wizard allows you to export data into various format. Save your settings as an export profile for setting schedule.

Powerful Data Manipulation Tools

Form View
Manipulate the current record with Form View. Enjoy a clear display of field name and its value with focus on current record.

Support of Foreign Key Data Selection
With the GUI tool - Foreign Key Data Selection, you can locate the foreign key values from the reference table. Stop shifting the view to a master table to look for the available values!

Support of Data Transfer between local/remote PostgreSQL databases
Data Transfer allows you to effortlessly transfer data between databases. This feature will drastically simplify the process for migrating data.

Export data and create records as INSERT statements in sql file
During Data Transfer, you can choose to export data as sql file with designated SQL format and encoding.

Data and Structure Synchronization
You can transfer data from one database to another with detailed analytical process. Likewise, you can compare and modify the table structures. For both Data and Structure Synchronization, the target database can be on the same server as the source or on another server.

Create Schedule for Backup, Import/Export, Data Transfer, Queries and Data Synchronization
Create a batch job for setting schedule to execute at one or more regular intervals, beginning and ending at a specific date and time. Batch job can be created for Query, Report printing, Backup, Data Transfer, Data Synchronization, Import and Export.

Send notification e-mail for schedule task
Generate notification e-mails to recipients you specify, connecting them to the latest schedule information. Read directly through your email account on the results returned from a schedule. Also, exported file and report can be added to the batch job as mail attachment so that you can share your data easily.

Support of Backup and Restore databases
Regular backup on database is important to users. Backup/restore all tables and records, views etc for your databases using Navicat. You can also schedule backups between databases.

Powerful Security Management

Visual Role Manager
Navicat provides users a visual tool for role management. You can easily add, duplicate, delete roles, and edit global role privileges.

Visual Privilege Manager
Having assistance with our Privilege Manager, you will get a clear view as well as a quick access to grand privileges both at system and object levels for the selected account.

Easy-to-Use Report Builder *only available in Windows Enterprise Version

Create reports with visual Report Builder
Create different types of reports with our user-friendly GUI Report Builder. Design reports for Invoice, Statistics, Mailing Labels and more.

Export reports to multiple formats, PDF, Excel, HTML etc.
Enjoy more output formats for report export - text, pdf, Lotus, Excel, Graphic, Html and more. Check out the feature in Report Builder included in Navicat Enterprise Version.

View and share reports with others by using Report Viewer
Navicat Report Viewer allows you to navigate reports designed by Navicat Report Builder. The coolest thing about it is that you can share reports with someone who does not have Navicat running on his computer but has Navicat Report Viewer installed.

Report Archive
Navicat allows you to save reports as an archive file (.raf) for backup and increased portability.

More Great Features

ER Diagram View
ER Diagram view helps you achieve a better understanding of your database schema by displaying the structure in a graphical format. So, you can see the interrelationships between tables in a database.

Database Wide Search
Navicat provides a powerful search function to find records on the entire database. You can search for whole words only, use regular expressions etc to search in. It is particularly useful if you want to limit your search to a particular type of records.

Server Monitor
Select the servers that you want to monitor by checking them in the checklist box of the Server Monitor Window. Click on either Process List, Variables or Status Tab to show and/or modify the properties of your servers.

Connection Coloring
With Connection Coloring feature, you can immediately know which server you are connected to. It includes a colored strip indicator shown on the sub-window toolbar for identifying connections and their database objects.

Favorites
Navicat makes it easy for you to return to a particular database object you visit often within easy reach. By adding paths to your favorites list, you can go to those database objects with a single click, instead of having to navigate the connection and databases in Navicat.

Object Filter
If you want to narrow the list of database objects displayed in Navicat, why don't you try our Object Filtering feature. Type in text, and only those database objects that start with the specified string are shown.

Virtual Grouping
Have a better organization over connection and objects in Navicat. You can categorize objects into groups with the Virtual Grouping feature.

Support of Increment Search
Incremental Search allows you to perform a find, instead of waiting for the complete search string to be entered it will search for the closest match as the string is typed, reposition (caret) to the found string as it is typed. In other words, the matched text is found and highlighted instantly. This saves your time from typing the entire text.

Text/Hex/Image Viewer
Navicat provides Text/Hex/Image Viewer and Editor to view/edit text and image field contents. The editor allows you to view, update, insert or delete data in a table.

SQL Console
To use a command-line interface, you can open SQL Console in Navicat. It provides you an interactive text-based screen to query input and result output from database.

Additional Connection Options

Support of SSH Tunnel
Establish a secure SSH session through SSH Tunneling in Navicat. Enjoy a strong authentication and secure encrypted communications between two hosts. The authentication method can use a password or public / private key pair.

Support of HTTP Tunnel
Navicat comes with HTTP Tunneling while your ISPs do not allow direct connections to their database servers but allow establishing HTTP connections. HTTP Tunneling is a method for connecting to a server that uses the same protocol (http://) and the same port (port 80) as a webserver does.

Provide auto-reconnection for PostgreSQL server
You can keep the server connection alive using Keepalive Interval option. It prevents your connection from appearing idle, thus preventing your server from dropping the connection due to inactivity.

Import/Export Connection Settings
You can easily transfer your connection settings while migrating Navicat from one computer to another new machine. Simply export your connections via Navicat and restore it on the new machine.

Instant Navigation over Databases

Show databases as an open state once connection starts
Have your preferable databases opened right after the connection is made. Save your time and work more efficiently!

Powerful Visual Database Designer *only available in Enterprise Version

Support of Reverse Engineer
With the Reverse Engineer in Navicat, you can create a database model from an existing database and graphically visualize and edit the structure of your database. Or, you can graphically create a model, and generate a database that supports your model.

Compare and Synchronize between Model and Database
Synchronize to Database will give you the full picture of all databases differences. Once your databases are compared, you can view the differences and generate the necessary synchronization script to update the destination database and make it identical to your model. Flexible comparison and synchronization settings will enable you to set up a customized comparison key for comparison and for synchronization.

Support of SQL/DDL Script Generation
Export SQL gives you the opportunity to get a full control over the final SQL script, generate individual parts of your model, generate referential integrity rules, comments, character set etc. The Export SQL feature may save you hundreds of hours of your work.

Well-Designed Visual Builder/SQL Editor

Visual SQL Builder
Visual SQL Builder - which is divided into two portions: the upper Graphical View, and the lower Syntax View, allows you to create and edit queries/views visually without knowledge of SQL.

Query Editor
It allows you to create and edit SQL text for a query, prepare and execute selected queries.

Support of Parameter Query
Set query parameters to add variable values to a query each time you run it.

SQL Beautifier
With SQL Beautifier, you can format your SQL through a user-defined set of rules. This feature will increase your coding productivity and will improve the readability of your SQL code.

SQL Minifier
Eliminate unnecessary spaces, line breaks, and indentation come in handy if you want to copy and paste your SQL to anywhere without unwanted whitespaces.

Smart Code/Word completion support
Experience a quick way in constructing SQL statements in SQL Editor with the code/word completion feature. Whether you want to select available properties of database objects or SQL keywords, all it takes is a pick from the drop-down list.

Support of standard editing features
Indent and outdent, show line numbers, convert cases, zoom in/out and more.

Code Folding
Code Folding lets you collapse (hide) and expand (show) sections of your code to make it easier to navigate and read. What you need to do is just to click the plus (+) and minus (-) signs next to the code.

Matched Brace/Bracket Highlighting
when you place the cursor just after a closing (or just before an opening) brace, bracket, or parenthesis. Navicat will try to locate its matching brace, bracket, or parenthesis and highlight their companion with pre-defined colour.

Diversified Import and Export Competence

Import data from ODBC
You can import data from ODBC after setting up a data source connection. All available tables will be included if connection success. Just simply choose the tables you wish to import or specify a query using Add Query button.

Import data from up to 18 most popular formats including MS Access, MS Excel, XML, PDF and TXT
Import Wizard allows you to import data into a table from diverse format. On top of that, you can save your settings as an import profile for setting schedule.

Export data to MS Access, MS Excel, MS Word, HTML, PDF, TXT, CSV, DBF, XML, etc
Likewise, Export Wizard allows you to export data into various format. Save your settings as an export profile for setting schedule.

Powerful Data Manipulation Tools

Form View
Manipulate the current record with Form View. Enjoy a clear display of field name and its value with focus on current record.

Support of Foreign Key Data Selection
With the GUI tool - Foreign Key Data Selection, you can locate the foreign key values from the reference table. Stop shifting the view to a master table to look for the available values!

Support of Data Transfer between local/remote PostgreSQL databases
Data Transfer allows you to effortlessly transfer data between databases. This feature will drastically simplify the process for migrating data.

Export data and create records as INSERT statements in sql file
During Data Transfer, you can choose to export data as sql file with designated SQL format and encoding.

Data and Structure Synchronization
You can transfer data from one database to another with detailed analytical process. Likewise, you can compare and modify the table structures. For both Data and Structure Synchronization, the target database can be on the same server as the source or on another server.

Create Schedule for Backup, Import/Export, Data Transfer, Queries and Data Synchronization
Create a batch job for setting schedule to execute at one or more regular intervals, beginning and ending at a specific date and time. Batch job can be created for Query, Report printing, Backup, Data Transfer, Data Synchronization, Import and Export.

Send notification e-mail for schedule task
Generate notification e-mails to recipients you specify, connecting them to the latest schedule information. Read directly through your email account on the results returned from a schedule. Also, exported file and report can be added to the batch job as mail attachment so that you can share your data easily.

Support of Backup and Restore databases
Regular backup on database is important to users. Backup/restore all tables and records, views etc for your databases using Navicat. You can also schedule backups between databases.

Powerful Security Management

Visual Role Manager
Navicat provides users a visual tool for role management. You can easily add, duplicate, delete roles, and edit global role privileges.

Visual Privilege Manager
Having assistance with our Privilege Manager, you will get a clear view as well as a quick access to grand privileges both at system and object levels for the selected account.

Easy-to-Use Report Builder *only available in Windows Enterprise Version

Create reports with visual Report Builder
Create different types of reports with our user-friendly GUI Report Builder. Design reports for Invoice, Statistics, Mailing Labels and more.

Export reports to multiple formats, PDF, Excel, HTML etc.
Enjoy more output formats for report export - text, pdf, Lotus, Excel, Graphic, Html and more. Check out the feature in Report Builder included in Navicat Enterprise Version.

View and share reports with others by using Report Viewer
Navicat Report Viewer allows you to navigate reports designed by Navicat Report Builder. The coolest thing about it is that you can share reports with someone who does not have Navicat running on his computer but has Navicat Report Viewer installed.

Report Archive
Navicat allows you to save reports as an archive file (.raf) for backup and increased portability.

More Great Features

ER Diagram View
ER Diagram view helps you achieve a better understanding of your database schema by displaying the structure in a graphical format. So, you can see the interrelationships between tables in a database.

Database Wide Search
Navicat provides a powerful search function to find records on the entire database. You can search for whole words only, use regular expressions etc to search in. It is particularly useful if you want to limit your search to a particular type of records.

Server Monitor
Select the servers that you want to monitor by checking them in the checklist box of the Server Monitor Window. Click on either Process List, Variables or Status Tab to show and/or modify the properties of your servers.

Connection Coloring
With Connection Coloring feature, you can immediately know which server you are connected to. It includes a colored strip indicator shown on the sub-window toolbar for identifying connections and their database objects.

Favorites
Navicat makes it easy for you to return to a particular database object you visit often within easy reach. By adding paths to your favorites list, you can go to those database objects with a single click, instead of having to navigate the connection and databases in Navicat.

Object Filter
If you want to narrow the list of database objects displayed in Navicat, why don't you try our Object Filtering feature. Type in text, and only those database objects that start with the specified string are shown.

Virtual Grouping
Have a better organization over connection and objects in Navicat. You can categorize objects into groups with the Virtual Grouping feature.

Support of Increment Search
Incremental Search allows you to perform a find, instead of waiting for the complete search string to be entered it will search for the closest match as the string is typed, reposition (caret) to the found string as it is typed. In other words, the matched text is found and highlighted instantly. This saves your time from typing the entire text.

Text/Hex/Image Viewer
Navicat provides Text/Hex/Image Viewer and Editor to view/edit text and image field contents. The editor allows you to view, update, insert or delete data in a table.

SQL Console
To use a command-line interface, you can open SQL Console in Navicat. It provides you an interactive text-based screen to query input and result output from database.