Re: Status during copy [patch]

Added to TODO:
       o Have COPY return number of rows loaded/unloaded

This is a backend change to return the number of rows affected as part
of the command status string returned, like we do with UPDATE/INSERT/DELETE.

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Jim C. Nasby wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 02, 2003 at 03:23:26PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> > Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us> writes:
> > > How do people feel about this patch?  Currently COPY doesn't even return
> > > a line count of the number of lines processed, while this patch would
> > > make psql \copy produce date/time and count every 1000 rows, then print
> > > a similar completion message.
> > 
> > Seems much too noisy for me.  That would be appropriate behavior in a
> > GUI, but psql is not and never will be a GUI.  Martijn's concern about
> > hacking the behavior depending on where stderr points demonstrates
> > exactly why we don't want to do this.
>  
> What about an option to enable it? Or a command to find out how many
> rows a running copy command has imported? It would be very handy to be
> able to know how far along a large copy operation is.
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