Re: Logging ALL output from psql - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Raymond O'Donnell
Subject Re: Logging ALL output from psql
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Msg-id 4E9F3E05.1090206@iol.ie
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In response to Logging ALL output from psql  (Bobby Dewitt <Bdewitt@appriss.com>)
List pgsql-general
On 19/10/2011 22:10, Bobby Dewitt wrote:
> I can not find a way to log ALL output from a psql session when running
> a script.  Basically, I'm running a large deployment script that has
> thousands of SQL statements and I need to know which statements fail.  I
> want the output generated when running the script to be saved to a log
> file so that I can grep through the output and look for errors.  I don't
> want the script to stop processing using the ON_ERROR_STOP variable.  It
> doesn't matter to me if the script is run interactively or not.
>
> I've tried redirecting the output to a log file, but this only gets the
> SQL statements issued and their results and not the errors that may be
> encountered:
> psql -f test_psql_deployment_logging.sql > test_psql_deployment_logging.log
>

You need to redirect stderr as well - add "2>&1" to the end of the command.

Ray.



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Raymond O'Donnell :: Galway :: Ireland
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