Re: pg_stat_progress_basebackup - progress reporting for pg_basebackup, in the server side

On 2020/02/06 11:07, Amit Langote wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 6, 2020 at 9:51 AM Kyotaro Horiguchi
> <horikyota.ntt@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> On Wed, Feb 5, 2020 at 18:25 Amit Langote <amitlangote09@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> So, maybe you're saying that "waiting for checkpoint" is ambiguous and
>>>> most people will assume it means "...to start".  As for me, I assume
>>>> it ends with "...to finish".
>>
>> I'm not sure "most peple will assume" or not, so I said "I'm not
>> sure".  For example, I feel strangeness to use "I'm waiting for Amit"
>> to express that I'm waiting Amit to leave there.  That phrase gives me
>> such kind of uneasiness.
>>
>> I thought of "establishing checkpoint" or "running a checkpoint" as
>> other candidates.
> 
> Okay, I understand.  I am fine with "running checkpoint", although I
> think "waiting for checkpoint" isn't totally wrong either.

Yeah, but if "waiting for XXX" sounds a bit confusing to some people,
I'm OK to back to "waiting for XXX to finish" that you originally
proposed.

Attached the updated version of the patch. This patch uses the following
descriptions of the phases.

   waiting for checkpoint to finish
   estimating backup size
   streaming database files
   waiting for wal archiving to finish
   transferring wal files

Regards,

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Fujii Masao
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