On Fri, 2023-10-27 at 09:19 -0500, Ron wrote: > On 10/27/23 09:04, Laurenz Albe wrote: > > On Fri, 2023-10-27 at 08:34 -0500, Ron wrote: > > > Pg 9.6.24 (Yes, I know; it's out of my control.) > > > > > > I'm ALTERing that table to change a column from INTEGER to BIGINT. Of > > > course, all of the partitions are pretty big. > > > > > > Even though it's one giant transaction, is there any way for me to monitor > > > it's progress? > > No, there is no way to monitor progress. The best you can do is to follow > > the growth of the table on disk. > > > > You could consider logical replication ... oh, wait, 9.6. > > Since it's really a bunch of "small" partitions, can I track the > (non)existence of those table oid files under $PGDATA/<dboid>? Probably not. Perhaps your best bet is to watch the growth of the data directory. Yours, Laurenz Albe
