From: Oliver Elphick <olly@lfix.co.uk>
To: ow <oneway_111@yahoo.com>
Cc: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: psql output and password Qs
Date: Fri, 19 Sep 2003 21:56:00 +0100
Message-ID: <1064004960.5362.3.camel@linda.lfix.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030919184716.51818.qmail@web21402.mail.yahoo.com>
References: <20030919184716.51818.qmail@web21402.mail.yahoo.com>
On Fri, 2003-09-19 at 19:47, ow wrote:
> Hi,
>
> 1) When psql is run from a script, how would one save *all* output generated by
> psql (including errors, info messages, etc) in to a file?. I tried redirecting
> output with ">" but that did not save error/confirmation messages.
Standard output and standard error are different streams.
The normal way to do what you want (Bourne shell syntax) is:
psql ... >outfile 2>&1
> 2) When psql is run from a script, how would one pass a password to psql?
Create a .pgpass file to read it from (see the manual for details).
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