>> Aren't my requirements sufficiently common to justify developing a >> mechanism to report progress back to client applications during batch >> operations and the like? > > Have you experimented with RAISE NOTICE? Using it this way is a bit of > a hack maybe, but I think you are entirely unaware of what would be > involved in producing something that's less of a hack. That assessment is accurate. Should I take it that you aren't particularly interested in pursuing something like this at present? I'll see what I can come up with by playing with RAISE NOTICE Thanks, Peter Geoghegan -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general