Re: Status during copy [patch]

Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> writes:
> How do people feel about this patch? Currently COPY doesn't even return
> a line count of the number of lines processed, while this patch would
> make psql \copy produce date/time and count every 1000 rows, then print
> a similar completion message.

Seems much too noisy for me. That would be appropriate behavior in a
GUI, but psql is not and never will be a GUI. Martijn's concern about
hacking the behavior depending on where stderr points demonstrates
exactly why we don't want to do this.

I would not object to adding a line count to the COPY command completion
report (on the server side), though. That's arguably comparable to the
number-of-rows-processed values for INSERT/UPDATE/DELETE.

regards, tom lane