erlang suppressing output from mnesia

Question

I want to suppress the "informational" output from mnesia.

I.e. when I do

mnesia:load_textfile("foo.txt").

I get, on stdout:

New table foo
New table bar

I still want to keep all warnings and error on stdout. This is the only thing I want to redirect or disable.

Answer 1

Unfortunately there's no easy way to do this. Those messages are emitted unconditionally via io:format calls from within the mnesia source code, and the mnesia functions don't provide any options to control whether the messages are emitted or not.