Re: [GENERAL] Making NULLs visible. - Mailing list pgsql-general

> > > Is there a way to make postgreSQL 'show' nulls rather than have them appear
> > > as blank fields?
>
> > I am always looking for suggestions on how to display nulls.  It is on
> > the TODO list.
>
> I'd suggest a query option.  The query option could filter the displayed
> data through a temporary table which would do a NULL to char() conversion
> as it were.
>
> similar to
> psql-> set query option id null as "NULL"
>
> then the interface would do the following if given a query
>

How do you feel about displaying nulls as \N, as we do in the COPY
output?

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