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" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "George Weaver" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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 > > ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- > TIP 2: you can get off all lists at once with the unregister command > (send "unregister YourEmailAddressHere" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]) > ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 9: the planner will ignore your desire to choose an index scan if your joining column's datatypes do not match