Re: Generalize ereport_startup_progress infrastructure

On Wed, Aug 10, 2022 at 11:00:20AM -0400, Robert Haas wrote:
> Maybe the checkpointer is a better candidate, but somehow I feel that
> we can't consider this sort of thing separate from the existing
> progress reporting that checkpointer already does. Perhaps we need to
> think of changing or improving that in some way rather than adding
> something wholly new alongside the existing system.

I agree that the checkpointer has a good chance of being a better
candidate.  Are you thinking of integrating this into log_checkpoints
somehow?  Perhaps this parameter could optionally accept an interval for
logging the progress of ongoing checkpoints.

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