Re: Progress report of CREATE INDEX for nested partitioned tables

On Sun, 2023-01-08 at 10:48 -0600, Justin Pryzby wrote:
> On Sat, Dec 17, 2022 at 08:30:02AM -0600, Justin Pryzby wrote:
> > We have the common problem of too many patches.
> > 
> > https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/a15f904a70924ffa4ca25c3c744cff31e0e6e143.camel%40gmail.com
> > This changes the progress reporting to show indirect children as
> > "total", and adds a global variable to track recursion into
> > DefineIndex(), allowing it to be incremented without the value
> > being
> > lost to the caller.
> > 
> > https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/20221211063334.GB27893%40telsasoft.com
> > This also counts indirect children, but only increments the
> > progress
> > reporting in the parent.  This has the disadvantage that when
> > intermediate partitions are in use, the done_partitions counter
> > will
> > "jump" from (say) 20 to 30 without ever hitting 21-29.
> > 
> > https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/20221213044331.GJ27893%40telsasoft.com
> > This has two alternate patches:
> > - One patch changes to only update progress reporting of *direct*
> >   children.  This is minimal, but discourages any future plan to
> > track
> >   progress involving intermediate partitions with finer
> > granularity.
> > - A alternative patch adds IndexStmt.nparts_done, and allows
> > reporting
> >   fine-grained progress involving intermediate partitions.
> > 
> > https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/039564d234fc3d014c555a7ee98be69a9e724836.camel@gmail.com
> > This also reports progress of intermediate children.  The first
> > patch
> > does it by adding an argument to DefineIndex() (which isn't okay to
> > backpatch).  And an alternate patch does it by adding to IndexStmt.
> > 
> > @committers: Is it okay to add nparts_done to IndexStmt ?
> 
> Any hint about this ?
> 
> This should be resolved before the "CIC on partitioned tables" patch,
> which I think is otherwise done.

I suggest that we move on with the IndexStmt patch and see what the
committers have to say about it. I have brushed the patch up a bit,
fixing TODOs and adding docs as per our discussion above.