Peter Geoghegan escribió: > > It is possible to code set-returning functions in a suspend-and-resume > > style, but none of the available PLs do that; you have to get down to > > the C level. > > Aren't my requirements sufficiently common to justify developing a > mechanism to report progress back to client applications during batch > operations and the like? This seems like a nice thing to have, that > would be broadly useful, perhaps as a contrib module. Obviously I have > no idea of the amount of effort developing such a feature would > entail. We've had several requests for progress reporting thingies of all kinds. The amount of effort is not insignificant, which is probably why nothing has gotten done yet ... -- Alvaro Herrera http://www.CommandPrompt.com/ The PostgreSQL Company - Command Prompt, Inc. -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general