Re: How to capture an interactive psql session in a log file?

On Apr 2, 2009, at 11:07 PM, Gordon Shannon wrote:

>
> That does the trick, awesome!
>
> I do think it would be great if psql had a "stderr" capture in
> addition to
> stdout.

While the recommendations to use script are perfect for the use case
of capturing everything, including input, I think it's worth
mentioning that there was some discussion not too long ago to give
psql better IO redirection capabilities. The suggestion I like was
something along the lines of

pagila# \o > stdout.txt 2> stderr.txt

as the meaning of that should be immediately obvious to most *nix
users and would also allow

pagila# \o > allout.txt 2>&

and this would default to stdout for backwards compatibility (and
simplicity)

pagila# \o stdout.txt

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