Re: Query progress indication - an implementation

On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 02:07:23PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com> writes:
> > So, while an actual % completed indicator would be perfect, a "query
> > steps completed, current step =" would still be very useful and a large
> > improvement over what we have now.
>
> I think this is pretty much nonsense --- most queries run all their plan
> nodes concurrently to some extent.  You can't usefully say that a query
> is "on" some node, nor measure progress by whether some node is "done".

What about showing the outermost node where work has started?

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