Re: pgsql --echo-errors --quiet and setval

On 9/8/23 12:36, Les wrote:
>
>   Dear fellow PostgreSQL users,
>
> Today I caught this with postgresql v15, while restoring a database with
> psql  --echo-errors --quiet. (The dump was made using pg_dump -Fp).
>
> It logged lots of these messages:
>
>  setval
> --------
>    1001
> (1 row)
>
> In other words, it logs **some** things that are not errors, even though
> --quiet was specified. Is this the expected behaviour? I would argue
> that with --quiet --echo-errors, only errors should be logged, and
> setting the value of a sequence is not an error.

No but SELECT pg_catalog.setval(...) in the dump file is a function that
has return value and that is what you are seeing.

>
> Thank you,
>
>     Laszlo
>

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