Re: Print line? - Mailing list pgsql-admin

From Ian Barwick
Subject Re: Print line?
Date
Msg-id 200210231538.36962.barwick@gmx.net
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In response to Print line?  (markus.cl@gmx.de (Markus Dehmann))
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On Tuesday 22 October 2002 19:46, Markus Dehmann wrote:
> Hi,
>
> is there an SQL command that just prints a line? I want to do sth like:
>
> -- SQL query
> print "Now displaying cities...";
> SELECT * from cities;

By definition SQL doesn't have any output formatting
functions; those are provided by individual client
applications.

In psql you can use \echo to print a line to standard
output. \? shows other available options.

Ian Barwick
barwick@gmx.net



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