Databases
Database Visualization
Connect a database and LakshX draws it — tables, collections, and the relationships between them — as an ER diagram, right inside the IDE. It works across four engines.
Supported engines
- PostgreSQL, MySQL, SQLite — relational schemas with real foreign keys, drawn as solid relationship edges.
- MongoDB — collections with relationships inferred from your documents.
Opening the panel
Two ways in:
- Click DB in the status bar (the database icon).
- Run LakshX: Show Database Panel from the command palette.
Connecting
- SQLite — pick the database file with an open dialog; it opens read-only.
- PostgreSQL / MySQL / MongoDB — paste a connection string into a masked input, validated against the engine’s scheme.
Credentials are stored in the IDE’s per-extension secret storage — never in a file in your repo. To switch databases, use Change Connection… in the panel, or run LakshX: Forget Database Credentials to clear them.
Reading the diagram
The panel’s Schema tab renders your database as an entity-relationship diagram, so you can see structure and joins at a glance instead of piecing them together from migration files.
Browsing real rows — the Data tab
Switch to the Data tab to browse actual rows yourself: pick a table/collection from the dropdown and page through its contents directly, with client-side column sorting. This is you looking at your own data — it works whether or not Allow AI queriesis on, and it’s unrelated to the agent.
Data tab vs. Allow AI queries — two different things