On Wed, 23 Oct 2019 at 17:20, Geoff Winkless <pgsqladmin@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > For what it's worth, I can see a value to having > > SELECT 'this is quite a long string' > 'which I've joined together ' > 'across multiple lines'; > > although the advantage of it vs using a concat operator is slim. As an aside, Postgres isn't the only DB to follow the standard here. mysql> select 'hello' -> ' there'; +-------------+ | hello | +-------------+ | hello there | +-------------+ Geoff