install

Additional install commands

macOS

Homebrewverified · 100%

brew install prqlc

local Homebrew formula metadata

Linux

Nixverified · 92%

nix profile install nixpkgs#prqlc

nixpkgs package indexes · pkgs/by-name/pr/prqlc/package.nix · source: api.github.com

Windows

Scoopverified · 92%

scoop install main/prqlc

Scoop official bucket manifest trees · bucket/prqlc.json · source: api.github.com

Windows Package Managerverified · 92%

winget install --id PRQL.prqlc -e

Windows Package Manager source index · PRQL.prqlc · source: cdn.winget.microsoft.com

overview

Package summary

Simple, powerful, pipelined SQL replacement

Project links

Commands and aliases

prqlc

history

Project history and usage

prqlc is the Rust compiler and CLI for PRQL, a pipelined relational query language that compiles to SQL.

Project history

PRQL began with a January 2022 proposal for a pipelined relational query language. A growing open-source group spent the following months building the compiler and integrations, declaring version 0.2.0 ready for use in June 2022. The CLI binary became prqlc around the 0.4 series, and the compiler crate was later renamed from prql-compiler to prqlc as part of a consistent project-wide naming scheme.

Adoption history

The January 2022 proposal reached second place on Hacker News and brought roughly 2,500 GitHub stars within days, according to the project's changelog. The compiler later gained Homebrew packaging, release binaries, Linux packages, a stable Snap, and bindings for several programming-language ecosystems.

How it is used

Users write relational transformations as left-to-right pipelines and run prqlc to compile them into SQL for a selected database dialect. The CLI also supports formatting, watching files, debugging compiler stages, lineage output, and experimental syntax highlighting.

Why package nerds care

prqlc is interesting to language and data-tooling packagers because it turns an alternative relational syntax into ordinary SQL rather than requiring a new database runtime. Its Rust implementation, cross-platform binaries, many bindings, dialect targets, and formatter and language-tooling work give it a footprint beyond a single CLI.

Timeline

January 2022: The initial PRQL proposal was published.
June 2022: PRQL 0.2.0 was declared ready for use.
July 2022: The compiler became available through Homebrew Core under its earlier prql-compiler name.
January 2023: A directly installable prqlc CLI crate was released.
February 2024: The compiler naming was standardized on prqlc.
July 2026: Version 0.13.14 shipped cross-platform binaries and Linux packages.

Related projects

The wider PRQL project includes language bindings, a web playground, editor integrations, and Lutra query-runner work. prqlc emits SQL for existing databases rather than executing queries itself.

Sources

Official PRQL Language Book: https://prql-lang.org/book/
Official changelog: https://prql-lang.org/book/project/changelog.html
Official releases: https://github.com/PRQL/prql/releases
Official repository: https://github.com/PRQL/prql

security posture

Risk level: yellow

broad file, network, media, or database tool signal. generalized runtime or code generation signal.

Risk classifier

yellow risk · medium confidence · runtime

Why

broad file, network, media, or database tool signal
generalized runtime or code generation signal

Signals

text:repl
text:sql

Install behavior

No Homebrew post-install hook is recorded in formula metadata.
Homebrew bottle metadata is available for 6 platform targets.
Build metadata lists 1 build dependencies.

Recommended review

Before unattended agent use, check whether the tool reads plaintext credentials, writes remote state, publishes artifacts, or shells out to plugins.

executables

Installed executables

Command	Kind	Exposure	Note
`prqlc`	cli	global executable

freshness

Version and freshness

These signals separate page generation age, package-manager activity, and upstream release comparison. Version lag is warned only when an evidence URL and comparable versions are present.

page generated2026-09-19

manager version0.13.14

manager updated2026-09-13

local dataok

upstreamcurrent

latest detected0.13.14

https://github.com/PRQL/prql

okNo freshness warnings were generated.

install metadata

Package metadata

Package key	brew:prqlc
Version	0.13.14
Package manager	Homebrew
Package manager page	https://formulae.brew.sh/formula/prqlc
Homepage	https://prql-lang.org
Repository	https://github.com/PRQL/prql
Upstream docs	https://prql-lang.org
License	Apache-2.0
Source archive	https://github.com/PRQL/prql/archive/refs/tags/0.13.14.tar.gz
Last updated	2026-09-13T12:39:09Z
Pulse	updated
Build dependencies	rust
Bottle	available (on arm64_linux, arm64_sequoia, arm64_sonoma, arm64_tahoe, sonoma, x86_64_linux)
Homebrew post-install	not defined
Service	none declared

registry facts

Source database details

Source Database	Homebrew formula API
Tap	homebrew/core
Full Name	prqlc
Version Scheme	0
Revision	0
Head Version	HEAD
Bottle Stable Root URL	https://ghcr.io/v2/homebrew/core
Deprecated	no
Disabled	no
Keg Only	no
URL Keys	head stable

source database matches

Other package-manager records

Matches are pulled from external package-manager indexes and kept separate from local Automic Vault package links.

Nix95%

prqlc

nix profile install nixpkgs#prqlc

normalized package name match
Matched by: Prqlc

nixpkgs package indexes · api.github.com · nixpkgs package indexes: pkgs/by-name/pr/prqlc/package.nix from https://api.github.com/repos/NixOS/nixpkgs/git/trees/master?recursive=1

Scoop95%

main/prqlc

scoop install main/prqlc

normalized package name match
Matched by: Prqlc

Scoop official bucket manifest trees · api.github.com · Scoop official bucket manifest trees: bucket/prqlc.json from https://api.github.com/repos/ScoopInstaller/Main/git/trees/master?recursive=1

winget95%

PRQL.prqlc

winget install --id PRQL.prqlc -e

normalized package name match
Matched by: Prqlc

Windows Package Manager source index · cdn.winget.microsoft.com · Windows Package Manager source index: PRQL.prqlc from https://cdn.winget.microsoft.com/cache/source.msix

package graph

Links come from deterministic package relationships, av.db category and tag curation, ecosystem matches, and package hub membership.

source trail

Generated from repository data

This page is generated by av-web from the private package SQLite artifact built by scripts/generate-pkg-sqlite.py.

Combined YAML source

View the package source record on GitHub.

combined/prqlc.yml

Used sources

Geiger risk classifier
cross-ecosystem install command graph
curated package history
external package-manager database matches
package relationship graph
package version freshness
package-page enrichment
pkg.so package database
pkgdb category and tag curation

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