Formatting with psql

Yes, this is yet another "reminder to myself" Postgres post, because I've had to look this up at least 3 times.

To turn on expanded query output formatting in psql, the Postgres command-line client, run either \pset expanded or simply \x. They both do the same thing - make Postgres output each column in a result set as a separate line. This is equivalent to the mysql command-line client trick of ending the query with \G instead of a semi-colon.

Incidentally both of the above commands are boolean toggles. You run them once to turn on expanded formatting and run them again to turn it off.

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