Returning SELECTed rows immediately instead of all at the end?

[Ron <ronljohnsonjr@xxxxxxxxx>]

I'm running amcheck on a set of indices (test machine, not prod) and want to 
track the progress.  Is there a SELECT clause that makes rows display as 
they are created, or do I have to explicitly call bt_index_check() from a 
shell script or SQL function in order to see the output as each index is 
checked?


postgres=# select version();
                    version
------------------------------------------------------
PostgreSQL 9.6.18 on [snip] (Red Hat 4.4.7-23), 64-bit
(1 row)

postgres=# \dx
                           List of installed extensions
     Name     | Version |   Schema   | Description
--------------+---------+------------+--------------------------------------------
amcheck_next | 2       | public     | functions for verifying relation integrity
plpgsql      | 1.0     | pg_catalog | PL/pgSQL procedural language

#!/bin/bash
echo `date +"%F %T, %a"` Starting
psql CDSLBXW -c \
"SELECT clock_timestamp(),
        bt_index_check(c.oid, i.indisunique),
        n.nspname,
        c.relname ,
        c.relpages
FROM pg_index i
       JOIN pg_opclass op ON i.indclass[0] = op.oid
       JOIN pg_am am ON op.opcmethod = am.oid
       JOIN pg_class c ON i.indexrelid = c.oid
       JOIN pg_namespace n ON c.relnamespace = n.oid
WHERE am.amname = 'btree'
  AND c.relpersistence != 't'
  AND c.relkind = 'i'
  AND i.indisready
  AND i.indisvalid
ORDER BY c.relpages desc
;"

echo `date +"%F %T, %a"` Finished



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