#839·pgweb

Pretty print jsonb columns

Author: jonas-lomholdtCreated Feb 3, 2026Updated Feb 3, 2026

When I open the content of a jsonb column, I just get the raw text. Its really hard to read and more often than not I would prefer to have it formatted in a nice readable way. This could be conditionally by clicking a button if there's any performance implications on parsing the column values.

clicing a column of type jsonb ->
    opens the example view ->
        formats the content using a fast json formatter