Re: Making "invisible" characters visible ? (psql)

From: Adrian Klaver <adrian(dot)klaver(at)aklaver(dot)com>
To: stan <stanb(at)panix(dot)com>, Brian Dunavant <dunavant(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-general(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Making "invisible" characters visible ? (psql)
Date: 2019-11-20 15:18:46
Message-ID: 50972395-714a-84a6-7629-568f57d5ec00@aklaver.com
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On 11/20/19 7:01 AM, stan wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 20, 2019 at 09:22:02AM -0500, Brian Dunavant wrote:
>> On Wed, Nov 20, 2019 at 9:16 AM stan <stanb(at)panix(dot)com> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> How can i make these "invisible" characters visible?
>>>
>>>
>>>
>> In psql, by default it displays nulls as nothing. You can specify what
>> they should display as with:
>>
>> \pset null '<something>'
>>
>> Chances are those are all nulls, and will now display as whatever you set
>> them to. If they aren't, let us know.
> That worked, and yes they are NULLs, guess I expected to get 0 rows, as the
> only column I requested contained ONLY NULL's.
>
> basic misunderstanding on my part, i suppose.

NULL is a value so it should 'show' up.

>
> Thank you for your help.
>

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Adrian Klaver
adrian(dot)klaver(at)aklaver(dot)com

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