The article doesn't mention enabling unicode output. \pset linestyle unicode and other related formatting options. Some examples here: http://postgr

The article doesn't mention enabling unicode output. \pset linestyle unicode and other related formatting options. Some examples here: http://postgres.cz/wiki/Pretty_borders_in_psql http://okbob.blogspot.co.uk/2014/10/styles-for-unicode-borders-are-merged.html It's off by default for compatibility, but makes much more readable tabular output. I wrote this back in 2009 for 9.0, but not many people are aware of its existence (at least, I see plenty of ASCII output, and only occasional use of unicode in public writing).