Re: How to monitor the progress of a stored procedure?

Kynn Jones wrote:
> (Sorry for asking so many questions!)
>
> What techniques can one use to monitor the progress of a stored
> procedure?
>
> Specifically, how can I get the procedure to print a progress
> indicator message to the screen every once in a while?
>
> [...](In case it matters, the procedure is written in PL/perl.  I
> tried to use Perl's print statement, unbuffered, to print out a
> message periodically from within the procedure, but I see no output.)
elog?  (see example in
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.3/interactive/plperl-database.html)

klint.

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