Re: Suppress output from psql? - Mailing list pgsql-general

Ron St-Pierre <rstpierre@syscor.com> writes:

> Is there a way 'within' psql to suppress output?
>
> One of our cron scripts calls a sql file which contains various database
> commands (ALTER TABLEs, UPDATEs, etc) and various user-defined functions.
> So within this sql file there are various SELECT * FROM myFunction(); which
> sends output to the user from cron. I can't see anyway to suppress this from
> the psql docs and I don't believe that I can suppress it from cron
> either (I'll do
> some more checking there).

How about putting ">/dev/null 2>&1" after the command line in your crontab?

Or redirect it to a file if you think you might need it...

-Doug
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