Re: 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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