Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net> writes:
> Actually, something unrelated (must have been the notices popping up in
> the regression tests) led me to the idea of redirecting notice output into
> the regular query output channel in psql, which would make it subject to
> the pager if you have one set up. That would help those complaining about
> 100s of lines coming down their terminal. On my todo list.
This may be a bad idea. There are many people who use psql in shell
scripts, and for them it is critical that non-data messages like NOTICEs
get sent to stderr, *not* mixed in with query results on stdout.
If you can arrange to page stderr output, cool...
regards, tom lane
