Re: bug: copy progress reporting of backends which run multiple COPYs

On Sat, Jan 21, 2023 at 02:45:40AM +0100, Matthias van de Meent wrote:
> > Would you do anything different in the master branch, with no
> > compatibility constraints ?  I think the progress reporting would still
> > be limited to one row per backend, not one per CopyFrom().
> 
> I think I would at least introduce another parameter to BeginCopyFrom
> for progress reporting (instead of relying on pstate != NULL), like
> how we have a bit in reindex_index's params->options that specifies
> whether we want progress reporting (which is unset for parallel
> workers iirc).

This didn't get fixed for v16, and it seems unlikely that it'll be
addressed in back branches.

But while I was reviewing forgotten threads, it occurred to me to raise
the issue in time to fix it for v17.

-- 
Justin