Re: Maintaining blank lines in psql output?

On Tue, Jan 17, 2023 at 4:07 PM raf <raf(at)raf(dot)org> wrote:

> 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.
>
>
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.