PWIZ(1)

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version 3.18.3 · 6 versions
, in ubuntu resolute, ubuntu stonking

💖 PWIZ — the peewee model generator, bestie edition 💖

okay so. this is the manual page for pwiz, aka the peewee model generator ✨ it's giving "point me at a database and I'll write your models for you" and honestly? iconic.

🌸 NAME 🌸

pwiz — peewee model generator 🎀

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

pwiz [options] database_name

👑 OPTIONS 👑

bestie, here's the whole roster. every single one. no skipping, we don't do that here 💅

  • -h, --help — shows this help message and then dips out (exits). your classic escape hatch 🫶
  • -H HOST, --host=HOST — the host. the manpage gives us literally no description here, so she stays mysterious 😭
  • -p PORT, --port=PORT — the port. also undescribed. also mysterious. we respect her privacy 🙈
  • -u USER, --user=USER — the user. again, no blurb in the original. just vibes ✨
  • -P, --password — the password flag. still no description. the original is playing hard to get fr fr 💀
  • -e ENGINE, --engine=ENGINE — the database type! like sqlite, mysql, postgresql or cockroachdb. the default is "postgresql". main character engine, no cap 👑
  • -s SCHEMA, --schema=SCHEMA — the schema. yes, also description-less. consistency queen 🎀
  • -t TABLES, --tables=TABLES — only generates the tables you actually named. got multiple? separate them with commas, like a little comma-separated bestie list 🌸
  • -v, --views — generates model classes for your VIEWs in addition to tables. views said "let me in" and pwiz said okay 🪟✨
  • -i, --info — adds database information and other metadata to the top of the generated file. receipts at the top, love that for us 🧾💖
  • -o, --preserve-order — the model definition's column ordering matches the source table. order preserved, chaos declined 💅
  • -I, --ignore-unknown — ignores fields whose type cannot be determined. if we can't figure out the type, we simply pretend we didn't see it 🙈
  • -L, --legacy-naming — uses the legacy table- and column-name generation. retro era activated 🦋
heads up bestie: a bunch of these flags ship with zero description in the original page, and I'm not about to make stuff up about them. what you see is what's there 💀🫶

🌈 that's the whole page 🌈

pwiz lives at version 3.18.3+dfsg and this page is dated March 2026 — so yeah, she's fresh, she's documented, she's slaying. go generate some models, bestie. periodt 💅✨🎀

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