pg_dumpall now prints status messages; I find them to be a
nuisance, and the patch below implements a --quiet option,
though not necessarily well.
thanks,
-neil
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Your name : Neil Spring
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System Configuration
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Architecture (example: Intel Pentium) : PIII dual 1GHz
Operating System (example: Linux 2.0.26 ELF) : Debian Woody / 2.4.18
PostgreSQL version (example: PostgreSQL-7.2.1): PostgreSQL-7.2.1
Compiler used (example: gcc 2.95.2) : 2.95.4
Please enter a FULL description of your problem:
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pg_dumpall now prints status messages to stderr, which makes
it less suitable for a nightly cron job to backup the
database. I either get nightly useless mail, or redirect
stderr so that I don't know about errors. pg_dumpall
should not print those messages, or at least support
a --quiet option.
Please describe a way to repeat the problem. Please try to provide a
concise reproducible example, if at all possible:
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type "pg_dumpall > x". watch informational messages appear.
If you know how this problem might be fixed, list the solution below:
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patch to pg_dumpall.sh follows. A patch to pg_dumpall.1 is
straightforward, assuming this is the way to deal with the problem.
diff -cr postgresql-7.2.1/src/bin/pg_dump/pg_dumpall.sh
postgresql/src/bin/pg_dump/pg_dumpall.sh
*** postgresql-7.2.1/src/bin/pg_dump/pg_dumpall.sh Sun Feb 10 16:18:20 2002
--- postgresql/src/bin/pg_dump/pg_dumpall.sh Tue Apr 23 14:22:56 2002
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*** 87,92 ****
--- 87,96 ----
echo "pg_dumpall (PostgreSQL) $VERSION"
exit 0
;;
+ --quiet|-q)
+ quiet=t
+ break
+ ;;
--host|-h)
connectopts="$connectopts -h $2"
shift;;
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*** 144,149 ****
--- 148,154 ----
echo " -g, --globals-only Only dump global objects, no databases"
echo " -h, --host=HOSTNAME Server host name"
echo " -p, --port=PORT Server port number"
+ echo " -q, --quiet Don't print status messages to stderr"
echo " -U, --username=NAME Connect as specified database user"
echo " -W, --password Force password prompts (should happen
automatically)"
echo "Any extra options will be passed to pg_dump. The dump will be written"
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*** 169,175 ****
echo "DELETE FROM pg_shadow WHERE usesysid <> (SELECT datdba FROM pg_database WHERE
datname = 'template0');"
echo
! echo "connected to template1..." 1>&2
$PSQL -d template1 -At -c "\
SELECT
'CREATE USER \"' || usename || '\" WITH SYSID ' || usesysid
--- 174,180 ----
echo "DELETE FROM pg_shadow WHERE usesysid <> (SELECT datdba FROM pg_database WHERE
datname = 'template0');"
echo
! [ "$quiet" ] || echo "connected to template1..." 1>&2
$PSQL -d template1 -At -c "\
SELECT
'CREATE USER \"' || usename || '\" WITH SYSID ' || usesysid
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*** 235,241 ****
fi
echo "${BS}connect \"$DATABASE\" \"$DBOWNER\""
! echo "dumping database \"$DATABASE\"..." 1>&2
$PGDUMP "$DATABASE" <&4
if [ "$?" -ne 0 ] ; then
echo "pg_dump failed on $DATABASE, exiting" 1>&2
--- 240,246 ----
fi
echo "${BS}connect \"$DATABASE\" \"$DBOWNER\""
! [ "$quiet" ] || echo "dumping database \"$DATABASE\"..." 1>&2
$PGDUMP "$DATABASE" <&4
if [ "$?" -ne 0 ] ; then
echo "pg_dump failed on $DATABASE, exiting" 1>&2
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