Re: Capturing pgsql ERRORS/NOTICES to file

Hi Wei,

I hadn't tried that, and it did the trick!

Thank you!

George

----- Original Message -----
From: "Wei Weng" <wweng(at)kencast(dot)com>
To: "George Weaver" <georgew1(at)mts(dot)net>
Cc: <pgsql-sql(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Sent: Friday, September 26, 2003 2:16 PM
Subject: Re: [SQL] Capturing pgsql ERRORS/NOTICES to file

> George:
>
> Have you tried psql {whatever operations} 2> error_output ?
>
> (for Bash)
>
> Thanks
>
> Wei
>
>
> On Fri, 26 Sep 2003, George Weaver wrote:
>
> > Hi Josh,
> >
> > Thanks for the reply.
> >
> > What I am trying to achieve is to have errors go to a file, rather than
show
> > up on the screen.
> >
> > Is this possible?
> >
> > George
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Josh Berkus" <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com>
> > To: "George Weaver" <georgew1(at)mts(dot)net>; <pgsql-sql(at)postgresql(dot)org>
> > Sent: Friday, September 26, 2003 1:33 PM
> > Subject: Re: [SQL] Capturing pgsql ERRORS/NOTICES to file
> >
> >
> > > George,
> > >
> > > > I am in the process of creating a batch file that will update some
> > > > functions in a database for a remote user similar to:
> > > >
> > > > psql -o output dbname < functionupdate.sql
> > > >
> > > > Is there any way to save any ERROR and NOTICE messages to a file?
> > > >
> > > > The -o option doesn't capture this information.
> > >
> > > You have to use command shell redirects.
> > >
> > > For example, I commonly do in bash
> > > psql -o output dbname < functionupdate.sql >out.dump
> > > ... which sends all the command responses to a file, allowing me to
read
> > only
> > > the errors on the screen.
> > >
> > > See a guide to your shell for more creative redirection.
> > >
> > > --
> > > Josh Berkus
> > > Aglio Database Solutions
> > > San Francisco
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