On Monday, January 19, 2026, Rob Moore <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Was backup start time intentionally omitted from pg_stat_progress_basebackup, > or would it be okay for me or someone else to add it as a column? Or, am I > being daft and there is another obvious way to get the start time for an > in-progress base backup? > > Not sure about base backup but the other progress reporting commands would get that info from pg_stat_activity.query_start which can be joined to using pid. backend_start is likely close enough for pg_basebackup if it doesn’t recognize the replication protocol as a “command”. I haven’t checked.
David J.
