Re: Postgres query completion status?

Thom Brown wrote:
> 2009/11/20 Richard Neill <rn214@cam.ac.uk <mailto:rn214@cam.ac.uk>>
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>         It might also help if you posted your postgresql.conf too.
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>     Below (have removed the really non-interesting bits).
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>     Thanks,
>
>     Richard
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> I can't actually see anything in your config that would cause this
> problem. :/
>
> As for seeing the progress of an update, I would have thought due to the
> atomic nature of updates, only the transaction in which the update is
> running would have visibility of the as-yet uncommitted updates.
>

Yes, but surely the postmaster itself (and any administrative user)
should be able to find this out.

What I need for slow queries is some kind of progress bar. Any estimate
(no matter how poor, or non-linear) of the query progress, or time
remaining would be invaluable.

Richard