Thanks Tom, Embarassingly correct guesses. Thanks for the quick response.
On Tue, 07 Sep 2004 11:29:17 -0400, Tom Lane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Alex Soto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > I'm noticing NOTICE messages can't be turned off with my cygwin-based > > platform. I've had other's confirm it works on linux. > > The SET will definitely turn off messages that the backend thinks it is > delivering to the client. However, it won't turn off logging of those > same messages in the postmaster log --- which may just be standard > error. Allow me to guess a couple things: > > 1. You originally launched the postmaster from the same terminal window > you are now running psql in, and you didn't do anything to redirect its > error log to a file or /dev/null or syslog or whatever. > > 2. Before you changed client_min_messages you were actually seeing *two* > copies of these messages, one sent through psql and one popping up > because you are reading the postmaster's stderr. > > While you could make this go away by changing log_min_messages, a better > idea would be to redirect postmaster stderr someplace when you start it. > > regards, tom lane > ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 4: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster