Re: How to Output PSQL Errors to a Log File?

On Mon, 22 Feb 2010 23:19:34 -0800, "Wang, Mary Y"
<mary(dot)y(dot)wang(at)boeing(dot)com>
wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I used 'pg_dumpall' to dump the database in Postgres 7.1.3 and I'm in
the
> process of restoring the databases in Postgres 8.3.8. There were lots
> errors showed on the screen when I ran this command 'psql -e template1
-f
> 21.bak' and it actually displayed the line numbers where the errors
> occurred. Because there were so many errors, and I wanted the errors to
be
> logged to a log file so I ran this command 'psql -e template1 -f 21.bak
>
> late22error.txt', but late22error.txt didn't log the errors, it just
logged
> the transactions. What option should I use to tell psql to log all
errors
> to a log file?
>
> I'm running on RHEL 3.9.

Wow that takes us back aways. Did you dump the 7.1 with the 8.3 version of
pg_dump? That should help.

>
> Thanks
> Mary

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