Re: progress report for ANALYZE

On 2019-Jul-08, Robert Haas wrote:

> On Mon, Jul 8, 2019 at 5:29 AM Tatsuro Yamada
> <tatsuro(dot)yamada(dot)tf(at)nttcom(dot)co(dot)jp> wrote:
> > 17520|13599|postgres|16387|f|16387|scanning table|4425|4425
> > 17520|13599|postgres|16387|f|16387|analyzing sample|0|0
> > 17520|13599|postgres|16387|f|16387||0|0 <-- Is it Okay??
>
> Why do we zero out the block numbers when we switch phases? The
> CREATE INDEX progress reporting patch does that kind of thing too, and
> it seems like poor behavior to me.

Yeah, I got the impression that that was determined to be the desirable
behavior, so I made it do that, but I'm not really happy about it
either. We're not too late to change the CREATE INDEX behavior, but
let's discuss what is it that we want.

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