Hi, To get rid of the automatic output, turn PrintError off. For example: $dbh = DBI->connect("dbi:Pg:dbname=$dbname;host=${dbserver};", $dbuser, "",{PrintError => 0}) or errexit( "Unable to connect to dbname $dbname, err: $DBI::errstr"); See the "perldoc DBI" documentation for full information. Here is part of it: "PrintError" (boolean, inherited) The "PrintError" attribute can be used to force errors to generate warnings (using "warn") in addition to returning error codes in the normal way. When set "on", any method which results in an error occuring will cause the DBI to effectively do a "warn("$class $method failed: $DBI::errstr")" where $class is the driver class and $method is the name of the method which failed. E.g., DBD::Oracle::db prepare failed: ... error text here ... By default, "DBI->connect" sets "PrintError" "on". If desired, the warnings can be caught and processed using a $SIG{__WARN__} handler or modules like CGI::Carp and CGI::Error- Wrap. Normally, I catch errors myself in web applications, and output to a log and/or the screen appropriately. For this, you may want to turn off RaiseError, also. For example, you can look for a specific error message, and do special things under certain circumstances: my $rc2=$sth2->execute($val1, $val2); if (!$rc2) { #will be undef if a problem occurred if ($DBI::errstr=~/$dupKeyString/) { #$dupKeyString is set to the actual string we expect # This is expected sometimes LogMsg("Duplicate key on val \"$val1\""); } else { my $msg2="Unexpected error during insert of val \"$val\": DB error: $DBI::errstr"; db_error_exit ($msg2); } } This is just some quick example code, but you get the idea. Hope this helps, Susan "Basith Salman" <bsalman@lemurnetworks. To: <pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> net> cc: Sent by: Subject: Suppressing Error messages. |-------------------| pgsql-general-owner@pos | [ ] Expand Groups | tgresql.org |-------------------| 08/05/2005 07:42 AM Please respond to bsalman Hi All, I was wondering if there is way to suppress the error messages on the stdout from a perl dbi execute command, basically if I do a sth->execute() on a command and say the row cannot be updated then I get a err msg to stdout if there is foreign key violation, I want this error message to be directed to a log file. Is this possible. TIA. bsalman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 4: Have you searched our list archives? http://archives.postgresql.org ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- See our award-winning line of tape and disk-based backup & recovery solutions at http://www.overlandstorage.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 9: In versions below 8.0, the planner will ignore your desire to choose an index scan if your joining column's datatypes do not match