til/postgres/a-better-null-display-character.md

A Better Null Display Character

By default, psql will display null values with whitespace. This makes it difficult to quickly identify null values when they appear amongst a bunch of other data. You can pick a better display value for null characters with \pset null. My preference is the following:

\pset null 'Ø'

I have this in my .psqlrc file so that it is used by default every time.