Re: Progress report of CREATE INDEX for nested partitioned tables

Justin Pryzby <pryzby@telsasoft.com> writes:
> The idea would be for:
> 1) TOTAL to show the number of direct and indirect leaf partitions;
> 2) update progress while building direct or indirect indexes;
> 3) ATTACHing intermediate partitioned tables to increment by 0;
> 4) ATTACHing a direct child should continue to increment by 1,
> since that common case already works as expected and shouldn't be
> changed.

OK.

> The only change from the current patch is (3).  (1) still calls
> count_leaf_partitions(), but only once.  I'd prefer that to rearranging
> the progress reporting to set the TOTAL in ProcessUtilitySlow().

I don't agree with that.  find_all_inheritors is fairly expensive
and it seems completely silly to do it twice just to avoid adding
a parameter to DefineIndex.

            regards, tom lane