Re: Progress reporting for pg_verify_checksums

> Given the speed of verifying checksums and its storage-oriented status, I 
> also still think that a (possibly fractional) MB (1,000,000 bytes), or even 
> GB, is the right unit to use for reporting this progress. On my laptop (SSD), 
> verifying runs at least at 1.26 GB/s (on one small test), there is no point 
> in displaying kilobytes progress.

Obviously the file is cached by the system at such speed, but still most 
disks should provides dozens of MB per second of read bandwidth. If GB is 
used, it should use fractional display (eg 1.25 GB) though.

-- 
Fabien.