Display select results vertically in psql, as is done by MySQL's \G

Solution 1:

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

Or via psql param as shared here

psql db -xc 'select * from table'