I built pq - the jq of Parquet. Here's why data engineers need a better CLI

I got tired of spinning up DuckDB or writing throwaway Python just to peek inside a Parquet file. So I built pq - a single binary CLI (Rust) that handles the full Parquet workflow from your terminal Quick taste: pq data.parquet — metadata, schema, compression, row groups at a glance pq head -n 5 -c id,name s3://bucket/data.parquet — preview specific columns directly from S3 pq schema extract --ddl postgres data.parquet — generate CREATE TABLE (supports Postgres, ClickHouse, DuckDB, Spark,