Printing to screen in .sql file postgres

Question

This sounds like it should be a very easy thing to do, however, I cannot find ANYWHERE how to do it.

I have a .sql file I am building for an upgrade to my application

Answer 1

Via: https://stackoverflow.com/a/18828523/2014857

DO language plpgsql $$
BEGIN
  RAISE NOTICE 'hello, world!';
END
$$;

Depending on what you're doing, I'd be worried about doing a bunch of anonymous code blocks. You might consider storing the above as a function, and passing in whatever value you want logged.