Anup Greens <agreens123@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Our web app is using postgres as DB. We want to give our clients > the options of backing up his data. Since the data is couple of > GBs it takes couple of minutes to execute pg_dump on DB after the > user has selected backup option from his/her browser. > We want to show some sort of progress bar for the backup > operation. So my questions are : Is there a way of asking pg_dump > to report back the time it estimates to complete the backup > operation. Or even before executing pg_dump is there a way of > knowing how much time pg_dump will take to dump a the database? No. The closest you could get would be to use the --verbose option of pg_dump and show the resulting messages. -Kevin -- Sent via pgsql-admin mailing list (pgsql-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-admin
