Re: Maintaining blank lines in psql output?

From: raf <raf(at)raf(dot)org>
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Subject: Re: Maintaining blank lines in psql output?
Date: 2023-01-17 23:06:51
Message-ID: Y8cqC1HyhglNAmdL@raf.org
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On Tue, Jan 17, 2023 at 02:22:22PM -0700, "David G. Johnston" <david(dot)g(dot)johnston(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:

> On Tue, Jan 17, 2023 at 1:48 PM Ron <ronljohnsonjr(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
>
> >
> > White space can of course make things easy to read, but psql seems to
> > ignore
> > those blank lines. Is there any way to retain them in psql output?
> >
> >
> Nope, there is no setting for psql to print all blank lines it encounters
> to stdout. If you want to format your output with stuff other than query
> results it provides \echo
>
> David J.

Perhaps the best you can do is something like adding:

select '';

or

raise notice '';

It won't result in just a blank line, but it will separate things.

cheers,
raf

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