Re: Returning SELECTed rows immediately instead of all at the end?

On 6/13/20 12:04 AM, David G. Johnston wrote:
> On Friday, June 12, 2020, Ron <ronljohnsonjr(at)gmail(dot)com
> <mailto:ronljohnsonjr(at)gmail(dot)com>> wrote:
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> 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,
>
>
> No
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> 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?
>
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> You could wrap the function call in a custom plpgsql function (or just do
> a plpgsql loop) and side channel output via notice but i’d probably just
> do a shell script wrapper absent any other constraint.

Yeah, a shell script was my next option.  Thanks.

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