Re: add timing information to pg_upgrade

On Wed, Aug 02, 2023 at 01:02:53PM +0530, Bharath Rupireddy wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 2, 2023 at 12:45 PM Peter Eisentraut <peter@eisentraut.org> wrote:
>> I think we should change the output format to be more like initdb, like
>>
>>      Doing something ... ok
>>
>> without horizontally aligning all the "ok"s.
> 
> While this looks simple, we might end up with a lot of diff and
> changes after removing MESSAGE_WIDTH. There's a significant part of
> pg_upgrade code that deals with MESSAGE_WIDTH. I don't think it's
> worth the effort. Therefore, I'd prefer the simplest possible fix -
> change the message to '"Checking for  \"aclitem\" data type in user
> tables". It may be an overkill, but we can consider adding
> Assert(sizeof(message) < MESSAGE_WIDTH) in progress report functions
> to not encourage new messages to end up in the same formatting issue.

I don't think it's that difficult.  ІMO the bigger question is whether we
want to back-patch such a change to v16 at this point.

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