On Sun, Feb 28, 2010 at 10:12 PM, John Gage <jsmg...@gmail.com> wrote:
> This is a series of commands I issued to psql: > > 1) EFN=# \o aatest01.txt \i ./TestQuery01.txt > 2) EFN=# \i ./TestQuery01.txt > 3) EFN=# \p > 4) select * from vocabulary_sources > ; > 5) EFN=# \g > 6) EFN=# \p > 7) select * from vocabulary_sources > ; > 8) EFN=# \echo yes man > 9) yes man > > I have numbered the lines for convenience only. > > After I execute line 1), the results of the two queries contained in the > TestQuery01.txt file can be found in aatest01.txt. Good. Excellent. > > However, line 2) results in no output to any place I can discover. > Definitely not to the terminal screen I am typing in. > > Nonetheless line 3) prints the query buffer on the screen. And \echo > prints what follows to the screen. > > There seem to be two different STDOUT, one of which is in another > dimension. > > Please tell me what I am doing wrong. > > Thanks very much, > > John > > You need to type \o without any parameters again after your job of getting the output in the file is over and you desire output on the screen. -- Nilesh Govindarajan Site & Server Administrator www.itech7.com
