On Tue, Jan 17, 2023 at 4:07 PM raf <raf@xxxxxxx> wrote:
On Tue, Jan 17, 2023 at 02:22:22PM -0700, "David G. Johnston" <david.g.johnston@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 17, 2023 at 1:48 PM Ron <ronljohnsonjr@xxxxxxxxx> 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.
Those both seem much more complicated than \echo for the same (or worse) effect. You'd have to wrap the raise notice inside a do block which itself would then be executed by the server...
David J.
