Re: Logging duration of batch runs

Hi,
j
On Wed, 23 Jun 2004, Martijn van Oosterhout wrote:

> 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.

thankx! That did it ...

Greetings
Christian

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