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* psql output and password Qs @ 2003-09-19 18:47 ow <oneway_111@yahoo.com> 2003-09-19 20:56 ` Re: psql output and password Qs Oliver Elphick <olly@lfix.co.uk> 0 siblings, 1 reply; 2+ messages in thread From: ow @ 2003-09-19 18:47 UTC (permalink / raw) To: pgsql-sql 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. 2) When psql is run from a script, how would one pass a password to psql? Thanks __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design software http://sitebuilder.yahoo.com ^ permalink raw reply [nested|flat] 2+ messages in thread
* Re: psql output and password Qs 2003-09-19 18:47 psql output and password Qs ow <oneway_111@yahoo.com> @ 2003-09-19 20:56 ` Oliver Elphick <olly@lfix.co.uk> 0 siblings, 0 replies; 2+ messages in thread From: Oliver Elphick @ 2003-09-19 20:56 UTC (permalink / raw) To: ow <oneway_111@yahoo.com>; +Cc: pgsql-sql 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). -- Oliver Elphick Oliver.Elphick@lfix.co.uk Isle of Wight, UK http://www.lfix.co.uk/oliver GPG: 1024D/3E1D0C1C: CA12 09E0 E8D5 8870 5839 932A 614D 4C34 3E1D 0C1C ======================================== "Bring ye all the tithes into the storehouse, that there may be meat in mine house, and prove me now herewith, saith the LORD of hosts, if I will not open you the windows of heaven, and pour you out a blessing, that there shall not be room enough to receive it." Malachi 3:10 ^ permalink raw reply [nested|flat] 2+ messages in thread
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