This here is some of the beauty of linux - psql simply pipes the output to less - a tool that is made exclusively to handle these sorts of "look at a bunch of t

This here is some of the beauty of linux - psql simply pipes the output to less - a tool that is made exclusively to handle these sorts of "look at a bunch of text on a terminal" problems. Most of the problems less exists to solve would likely be deemed out of scope for a single-purpose utility like psql.