Re: Real time monitoring of pg_dump progress through web apps

Thanks for the response.

On Tue, Feb 14, 2012 at 8:04 PM, Kevin Grittner <Kevin(dot)Grittner(at)wicourts(dot)gov
> wrote:

> Anup Greens <agreens123(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
>
> > Our web app is using postgres as DB. We want to give our clients
> > the options of backing up his data. Since the data is couple of
> > GBs it takes couple of minutes to execute pg_dump on DB after the
> > user has selected backup option from his/her browser.
> > We want to show some sort of progress bar for the backup
> > operation. So my questions are : Is there a way of asking pg_dump
> > to report back the time it estimates to complete the backup
> > operation. Or even before executing pg_dump is there a way of
> > knowing how much time pg_dump will take to dump a the database?
>
> No. The closest you could get would be to use the --verbose option
> of pg_dump and show the resulting messages.
>
> -Kevin
>