Re: send psql output to file and setting pager=more

On 5/20/06, kmh496 <kmh496@kornet.net> wrote:

You still didn't tell us the OS you're using, btw ...

> I put export PAGER=more
> into my .bashrc and
> executed the command you stated, as well as
Did you check whether it's actually set before running
psql?

> \pset pager always
> \pset pager more
> but they don't stop after a page of input, so they seem to say they are
> doing the correct thing but really aren't.
All I can say is it works here (Postgres 8.1.3 on Slackware 10.2).
Without PAGER set in bash I get more, if I export PAGER=less
that's what PostgreSQL uses.


> > > (2) also, i want to have the results show up on the screen and be
> tee-ed
> > > to a file.  Oracle can do this, i don't remember if it's "set server
> > > output on" or something like that?
>
> I learned the postgres equivalent is
> \o filename
> but this only directs STDOUT not STDERR
> but, i want to capture the error messages into a file so I can then edit
> that side by side with the other script which is generating the
> messages.  Is it possible for \o to also capture output from both STDERR
> and STDOUT?
That's where the non-interactive version comes in... (at least
I have no idea how to redirect errors to a file from the interactive
one):
echo "select * from table;"|psql database 2>&1|tee what.txt


Cheers,
Andrej


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