Display select results vertically in psql, as is done by MySQL's \G
In MySQL, you can terminate a select query with \G (as opposed to \g) to display the results vertically:
select * from foo \G
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id: 1
bar: Hello
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id: 2
bar: World
How can one do the same thing for PostgreSQL using psql?
Answer
You can do this by enabling Expanded display.
Toggle this setting via \x. For example:
# \x
Expanded display is on.
# \x
Expanded display is off.
When on, results are shown in tabular (vertical) form:
-[ RECORD 1 ]
id | 1
bar | Hello
-[ RECORD 2 ]
id | 2
bar | World
You can run this for a single command by using the \x\g\x suffix to toggle expanded display on, run the query, then toggle it off again.
select * from foo \x\g\x