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Re: Progress bar updates

Andreas Pflug <pgadmin@pse-consulting.de>

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From: Andreas Pflug <pgadmin@pse-consulting.de>
To: Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com>
Cc: pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org, Gregory Stark <gsstark@mit.edu>
Date: 2006-07-19T12:23:58Z
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Josh Berkus wrote:
> Andreas,
>
>   
>> Some weeks ago I proposed a PROGRESS parameter for COPY, to enable
>> progress feedback via notices. tgl thinks nobody needs that...
>>     
>
> Well, *Tom* doesn't need it.  What mechanism did you propose to make this 
> work?
>   
Extended the parser to accept that keyword, and emit notices when n 
lines were copied. I found that convenient when transferring a large 
amount of data, to estimate total runtime.
Patch was submitted a while ago to -hackers, together with compression 
that was torn down in a way not suitable to inspire me to continue.

Regards,
Andreas

Regards,
Andreas