On Tuesday 22 October 2002 19:46, Markus Dehmann wrote:
> Hi,
>
> is there an SQL command that just prints a line? I want to do sth like:
>
> -- SQL query
> print "Now displaying cities...";
> SELECT * from cities;
By definition SQL doesn't have any output formatting
functions; those are provided by individual client
applications.
In psql you can use \echo to print a line to standard
output. \? shows other available options.
Ian Barwick
barwick(at)gmx(dot)net