This may be too simplistic an answer, but can't you just have the function
return a text string and return the message you want to deliver back to the
client?
On Wednesday 23 February 2005 05:00 am, Andre Schnoor saith:
> > I'm desparately seeking for a simple way to send messages to the client
> > during the execution of large stored procedures.
> >
> > RAISE INFO 'Now Processing %', thisCustomer;
> >
> > Doesn't do it, because the client console is cluttered with verbose
>
> context
>
> > information (e.g. backtrace). It's impossible to follow these "messages".
> >
> > I'm afraid that lowering the verbosity level in the server config will
>
> also
>
> > affect error messages (where verbosity is helpful). Is there another way
>
> to
>
> > output strings to the "console"?
>
> Example:
>
>
> INFO: Total of 25130 listed songs found, 13046 of them did not perform
> today
> CONTEXT: SQL statement "SELECT sp_song_performance_reset( $1 )"
> PL/pgSQL function "sp_song_performance_batch" line 41 at select into
> variables
> SQL statement "SELECT sp_song_performance_batch( $1 )"
> PL/pgSQL function "sp_daily" line 39 at select into variables
> SQL statement "SELECT sp_daily()"
> PL/pgSQL function "sp_test_charts" line 14 at select into variables
>
>
> I only want to have the first line appear and nothing else.
> How do I suppress the CONTEXT clutter?
>
>
> Andre
>
>
>
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