Wells Oliver <wells(dot)oliver(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
> Is there some clever way to gauge the progress of a COPY command? i.e. you
> know it has 10m rows, but you can't SELECT COUNT(*).
If it's a COPY IN (to a table) you could monitor growth of the
physical size of the table, cf pg_relation_size(). This isn't
terribly satisfactory if you're not clear on how much space each
row will take, but it's something.
regards, tom lane