>> Aren't my requirements sufficiently common to justify developing a
>> mechanism to report progress back to client applications during batch
>> operations and the like?
>
> Have you experimented with RAISE NOTICE? Using it this way is a bit of
> a hack maybe, but I think you are entirely unaware of what would be
> involved in producing something that's less of a hack.
That assessment is accurate. Should I take it that you aren't
particularly interested in pursuing something like this at present?
I'll see what I can come up with by playing with RAISE NOTICE
Thanks,
Peter Geoghegan