Just had to try:

  $ function _select_aux () { clickhouse local -q "SELECT $* FORMAT Pretty" }
  $ alias SELECT='noglob _select_aux'
  $ SELECT COUNT(*) as count FROM file('repos.json', JSON)
  ┏━━━━━━━┓
  ┃ count ┃
  ┡━━━━━━━┩
  │    30 │
  └───────┘