Choose File via Native File Dialog

SELECT * FROM read_csv(choose_file());

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Option

You can filter files by the extension. For example, in order to show CSV files only, you can specifies this:

choose_file('csv')

Installation

file_dialog is available from the Community Extension repository.

INSTALL file_dialog FROM community;
LOAD file_dialog;

Development

make configure
make debug

LOAD './build/debug/extension/file_dialog/file_dialog.duckdb_extension';