Re: Having a plpgsql function return multiple rows that indicate its progress in a cursor like fashion

Peter Geoghegan <peter.geoghegan86@gmail.com> writes:
> Aren't my requirements sufficiently common to justify developing a
> mechanism to report progress back to client applications during batch
> operations and the like?

Have you experimented with RAISE NOTICE?  Using it this way is a bit of
a hack maybe, but I think you are entirely unaware of what would be
involved in producing something that's less of a hack.

            regards, tom lane