Re: Making "invisible" characters visible ? (psql) - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Adrian Klaver
Subject Re: Making "invisible" characters visible ? (psql)
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Msg-id 50972395-714a-84a6-7629-568f57d5ec00@aklaver.com
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In response to Re: Making "invisible" characters visible ? (psql)  (stan <stanb@panix.com>)
List pgsql-general
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@panix.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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