Re: Tracking progress of (plpgsql?) operations

On Sun, Apr 30, 2006 at 16:36:04 -0700,
  k992637@yahoo.com wrote:
> as I can tell) see the intermediate stage of processing.  What I would
> ideally like is to be able to update a log table which stored how many
> values of A were selected and how many values of A have finished
> calculating, updating this every 5 iterations or so.  However I will
> never see an intermediate state in this table due to transactions (is
> this correct?).

If you use a trusted PL language, you can write to files which will probably
allow you to do what you want.