Thanks for the response. On Tue, Feb 14, 2012 at 8:04 PM, Kevin Grittner <kevin.gritt...@wicourts.gov > wrote:
> Anup Greens <agreens...@gmail.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 >
