Re: Progress of ALTER TABLE on inheritance-partitioned table?

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