Re: [HACKERS] ANALYZE command progress checker

On Wed, Mar 1, 2017 at 1:25 PM, Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de> wrote:
> On 2017-03-01 10:20:41 -0800, David Fetter wrote:
>> On Wed, Mar 01, 2017 at 09:45:40AM -0500, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
>> > On 2/28/17 04:24, vinayak wrote:
>> > > The view provides the information of analyze command progress details as
>> > > follows
>> > > postgres=# \d pg_stat_progress_analyze
>> > >            View "pg_catalog.pg_stat_progress_analyze"
>> >
>> > Hmm, do we want a separate "progress" system view for every kind of
>> > command?  What if someone comes up with a progress checker for CREATE
>> > INDEX, REINDEX, CLUSTER, etc.?
>
> I don't think that'd be that bad, otherwise the naming of the fields is
> complicated.

+1.

I suppose if it gets really out of control we might have to rethink,
but 2 is not 50, and having appropriate column names is worth a lot.

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