Hallo Michael,
my colleague Bernd Helmle recently added progress reporting to our pg_checksums application[1]. I have now forward ported this to pg_verify_checksums for the September commitfest, please see the attached patch.
It seems that the patch does not apply cleanly on master, neither with "git apply" nor "patch". Could you rebase it?
Here's the description: This optionally prints the progress of pg_verify_checksums via read kilobytes
MB? GB?
to the terminal with the new command line argument -P. If -P was forgotten and pg_verify_checksums operates on a large cluster, the caller can send SIGUSR1 to pg_verify_checksums to turn progress status reporting on during runtime.
Hmmm. I cannot say I like the signal feature much. Would it make sense for the progress to be on by default, and to have a quiet option instead?
-- Fabien.
