On Fri, Aug 11, 2006 at 06:10:48PM +0200, Francis GUDIN wrote:
> On Fri, 11 Aug 2006 08:05:44 -0700
> John Purser <jmpurser@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Take a look at the "tee" command that takes stdin and writes it to
> > stdout AND a file. If I understand you correctly you DO want to keep
> > stdout and stderr as two separate streams, write (at least) std err to
> > a log file, but have the error messages e-mailed to you as part of
> > your cron job. <snip>
>
> Thanks for your suggestion, but my concern is more about vacuum's
> behaviour, in fact:
> those messages are purely /informative/ and get sent to STDERR.
> This seems wrong to me: 'mundane' activity should be output to STDOUT and
> 'exceptional conditions' deserve the special fd, don't they ?
Well, I don't think psql or libpq really distinguishes them that much.
Normally you just set client_min_messages to suppress the messages you
don't want.
Have a nice day,
--
Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog@svana.org> http://svana.org/kleptog/
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