>>>> \warn ...
>>>> \warning ...
>>>
>>> These two seem about the best to me, drawing from the perl warn command.
>>
>> Yep, I was thinking of perl & gmake. Maybe the 4 letter option is better
>> because its the same length as "echo".
>>
>>> I suppose we could go the bash &2 route here, but I don't want to.
>>
>> I agree on this one.
>
> Please find attached v2, name is now \warn.
>
> How might we test this portably?
TAP testing? see pgbench which has tap test which can test stdout & stderr
by calling utility command_checks_all, the same could be done with psql.
--
Fabien.