Re: Silencing NOTICEs in Perl Pg

7.3 will have client_min_message, which if set to WARNING will note show
notices.  7.3 is due out in a few months, beta starts next week.

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David Wheeler wrote:
> On Thursday, August 29, 2002, at 01:02  PM, Bruno Wolff III wrote:
>
> > On Thu, Aug 29, 2002 at 12:17:16 -0700,
> >   David Wheeler <david@wheeler.net> wrote:
> >> BTW, I missed the beginning of this thread, but based on the subject,
> >> I'd sure like to find out if there's a simple way to suppress NOTICEs
> >> using DBI/DBD::Pg. I've tried a number of tricks, but short of closing
> >> STDOUT and STDERR in my Perl script, I've not found a way to do it.
> >> PrintError => 0 doesn't do the trick.
> >
> > I do the following before doing anything with the database:
> > open(OLDERR, '>&STDERR');
> > close(STDERR);
> > open(STDERR, '>/dev/null');
>
> Thanks for the suggestion. Unfortunately, that doesn't allow me to
> filter out just the NOTICEs, and let everything else be printed. The
> solution I've come up with, for those who are interested, is either
> this:
>
> open STDERR, "| perl -e 'while (<>) { print unless /^NOTICE:  / }'"
>    or die "Cannot pipe STDERR: $!\n";
>
> Or this:
>
> open STDERR, "| grep -v '^NOTICE:  '"
>    or die "Cannot pipe STDERR to grep\n";
>
> The former will be more portable, since we already know we have Perl ;-)
>
> Thanks for the help!
>
> David
>
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