Re: pg_stat_progress_basebackup - progress reporting for pg_basebackup, in the server side

On Thu, Mar 19, 2020 at 11:24 AM Alvaro Herrera
<alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> wrote:
> On 2020-Mar-19, Amit Langote wrote:
>
> > Magnus' idea of checking the values in pg_stat_get_progress_info() to
> > determine whether to return NULL seems fine to me. We will need to
> > update the documentation of st_progress_param, because it currently
> > says:
> >
> > * ...but the meaning of each element in the
> > * st_progress_param array is command-specific.
> > */
> > ProgressCommandType st_progress_command;
> > Oid st_progress_command_target;
> > int64 st_progress_param[PGSTAT_NUM_PROGRESS_PARAM];
> > } PgBackendStatus;
> >
> > If we are to define -1 in st_progress_param[] as NULL to the users,
> > that must be mentioned here.
>
> Hmm, why -1? It seems like a value that we might want to use for other
> purposes in other params. Maybe INT64_MIN is a better choice?

Yes, maybe.

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Thank you,
Amit