diff --git a/pkgs/development/tools/pgformatter/default.nix b/pkgs/development/tools/pgformatter/default.nix
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..5d8376acdb39
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/development/tools/pgformatter/default.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,40 @@
+{ stdenv, perlPackages, fetchFromGitHub, shortenPerlShebang }:
+
+perlPackages.buildPerlPackage rec {
+  pname = "pgformatter";
+  version = "4.0";
+
+  src = fetchFromGitHub {
+    owner = "darold";
+    repo = "pgFormatter";
+    rev = "v${version}";
+    sha256 = "09p242s406mf469p66zp1jmp9pxcim2vk1v6qsxnrbzicchsn5i2";
+  };
+
+  outputs = [ "out" ];
+
+  makeMakerFlags = [ "INSTALLDIRS=vendor" ];
+
+  # Makefile.PL only accepts DESTDIR and INSTALLDIRS, but we need to set more to make this work for NixOS.
+  patchPhase = ''
+    substituteInPlace pg_format \
+      --replace "#!/usr/bin/env perl" "#!/usr/bin/perl"
+    substituteInPlace Makefile.PL \
+      --replace "'DESTDIR'      => \$DESTDIR," "'DESTDIR'      => '$out/'," \
+      --replace "'INSTALLDIRS'  => \$INSTALLDIRS," "'INSTALLDIRS'  => \$INSTALLDIRS, 'INSTALLVENDORLIB' => 'bin/lib', 'INSTALLVENDORBIN' => 'bin', 'INSTALLVENDORSCRIPT' => 'bin', 'INSTALLVENDORMAN1DIR' => 'share/man/man1', 'INSTALLVENDORMAN3DIR' => 'share/man/man3',"
+  '';
+
+  nativeBuildInputs = stdenv.lib.optional stdenv.isDarwin shortenPerlShebang;
+  postInstall = stdenv.lib.optionalString stdenv.isDarwin ''
+    shortenPerlShebang $out/bin/pg_format
+  '';
+
+  doCheck = false;
+
+  meta = with stdenv.lib; {
+    description = "A PostgreSQL SQL syntax beautifier that can work as a console program or as a CGI";
+    homepage = "https://github.com/darold/pgFormatter";
+    maintainers = [ maintainers.marsam ];
+    license = [ licenses.postgresql licenses.artistic2 ];
+  };
+}
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
index db16c9d5143f..f478f638f633 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
@@ -3677,6 +3677,8 @@ in
 
   pgf_graphics = callPackage ../tools/graphics/pgf { };
 
+  pgformatter = callPackage ../development/tools/pgformatter { };
+
   pgloader = callPackage ../development/tools/pgloader { };
 
   pigz = callPackage ../tools/compression/pigz { };