Suppressing "NOTICE: CREATE TABLE / PRIMARY KEY will create implicit index" when running rake test with postgres db

Recently I switched to Postgres for my Rails database needs. Everything is good, but when running tests I get pages of NOTICE: CREATE TABLE / PRIMARY KEY will create implicit index ... spewing into my output.

I asked around and got some help from @robtreat2. A quick search lead me to the Postgres docs on the matter.

client_min_messages (string)
Controls which message levels are sent to the client. Valid values are DEBUG5, DEBUG4, DEBUG3, DEBUG2, DEBUG1, LOG, NOTICE, WARNING, ERROR, FATAL, and PANIC. Each level includes all the levels that follow it. The later the level, the fewer messages are sent. The default is NOTICE. Note that LOG has a different rank here than in log_min_messages.

That’s great for straight Postgres, but I don’t want to have some connection.exec jimmied into my test environment. Fortunately the Rails docs were also in that same search result:

:min_messages – An optional client min messages that is used in a SET client_min_messages TO <min_messages> call on the connection.

Using my newfound knowledge I was able to solve the issue by adding this to my database.yml file:

test:
  ...
  min_messages: WARNING

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