Re: Redirecting output

[James Gregory <james linuxaus com>]

On Wed, 2003-02-19 at 03:49, Ivo Andrejco wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> I am writing an application that connects to Postgresql. (I know  am not
> the only one.) And here's my problem. Postgresql writes error messages
> to stdout, I would like to catch them and display in my application.
> I was looking at similar problems in the list but they mostly invoke a
> new process, open a pipe and that's it. In my case everything runs as one
> process. Is there any way to do it without spawning a new process.

ummm, I'm a bit confused. All the postgres code I've written has just
got the error messages back from the library, no need to open anything
at all.

Are you using libpq or something else?

Anyway, the man page you're looking for is probably popen.

James.