Hallo Michael,
> my colleague Bernd Helmle recently added progress reporting to our
> pg_checksums application[1]. I have now forward ported this to
> pg_verify_checksums for the September commitfest, please see the
> attached patch.
It seems that the patch does not apply cleanly on master, neither with
"git apply" nor "patch". Could you rebase it?
> Here's the description:
>
> This optionally prints the progress of pg_verify_checksums via read
> kilobytes
MB? GB?
> to the terminal with the new command line argument -P.
>
> If -P was forgotten and pg_verify_checksums operates on a large cluster,
> the caller can send SIGUSR1 to pg_verify_checksums to turn progress
> status reporting on during runtime.
Hmmm. I cannot say I like the signal feature much. Would it make sense for
the progress to be on by default, and to have a quiet option instead?
--
Fabien.