On 1 Září 2012, 12:30, Robert Haas wrote: > On Sat, Sep 1, 2012 at 12:00 AM, Peter Eisentraut <pete...@gmx.net> wrote: >> When initializing a large database, pgbench writes tons of "%d tuples >> done" lines. I propose to change this to a sort of progress counter >> that stays on the same line, as in the attached patch. > > I'm not sure I like this - what if the output is being saved off to a > file?
What about using istty(stdout) to handle this situation? Although I find it usually confusing, because it prints one thing when executed directly and something else when the output is redirected to a file. I see two other options: (1) removing this output altogether (I can't imagine a situation when this really matters) and replace it with a simple "inserted 23% of rows, estimated remaining time 14:23 (863 sec)", updated each 1% (2) adding a switch (--verbose) that enables these lines, don't print them by default Another option might be updating the process title so that the "top" shows current progress more precisely than (1). Tomas -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
