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Re: User control over psql error stream

Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>

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From: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>
To: "Karl O. Pinc" <kop@meme.com>
Cc: pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Date: 2012-11-21T19:41:56Z
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On 11/15/12 3:53 PM, Karl O. Pinc wrote:
> This patch gives the end user control over psql's
> error stream.  This allows a single psql session
> to use \o to send both errors and table output
> to multiple files.  Useful when capturing test output, etc.

What does this do that cannot in practice be achieved using shell
redirection operators?