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