Re: psql output locations

On Wed, Dec 14, 2011 at 10:57:25AM -0500, Robert Haas wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 14, 2011 at 4:45 AM, Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net> wrote:
> >>> * There are a number of things that are always written to stdout, that
> >>> there is no way to redirect. In some cases it's interactive prompts -
> >>> makes sense - but also for example the output of \timing goes to
> >>> stdout always. Is there some specific logic behind what/when this
> >>> should be done?
> >>
> >> Everything that is not an error goes to stdout, no?  Except the query
> >> output, if you change it.
> >>
> >> Maybe the way to do what you want is to invent a new setting that
> >> temporarily changes stdout.
> >
> > Yeah, that might be it. Or I need separate settings for "put errors in
> > the query output stream" and "put non-query-output-but-also-non-errors
> > in the query output stream". The effect would be the same, I guess...
>
> That seems an awful lot harder (and messier) than just changing the
> all the call sites to use the same error-reporting function.

I have done as you suggested with the attached patch.

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