Re: Logging duration of batch runs

On Wed, Jun 23, 2004 at 12:49:19PM +0200, Christian Kratzer wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have a stored procedure run periodically that assign accounting records
> to their respective customers based on username and other criteria.
> It also does all kinds of validation work on the accounting records.
>
> I would have liked to have the procedure log start and stop times
> using RAISE NOTICE and also store start and stop time of each run
> to a logging table.

<snip>

> the problem is that start_time and stop_time are identical.
>
> Is there any way I can get plpgsql to reevaluate now at the end
> of the batch ???

You want timeofday(), not now(). Now() is transaction time, timeofday()
is the real current time.

Hope this helps,
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