On 2013-03-04 18:21:50 +0530, Pavan Deolasee wrote:
> Hello,
>
> While doing some tests, I observed that the "ps" command continues to
> display status of the startup process as "recovering <filename>" even
> though it has finished the redo and is now performing end-of-recovery
> checkpoint. This checkpoint can take a while, a few seconds to a few
> minutes depending on the dirty buffers at the end of the recovery. The
> "ps" command keep displaying a stale status for all that time. How
> about calling set_ps_display() with appropriate status string, say
> similar to what is logged by LogCheckpointStart() ? If we do that,
> what would be the best place to add that code ? I was thinking adding
> that to CreateCheckpoint() itself so that the status is displayed at
> all relevant places.
That might be confusing for example in CREATE DATABASE.
Greetings,
Andres Freund
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