Re: Change to 'timing on' globally

I followed your steps and it worked in the way you indicated, on CentOS as well. But it still does not:

a. work with psql -c "query" syntax. (Works  in echo mode or in interactive mode.)

b. it does not still seem to work if you fire the queries from a client box (in any mode - interactive or otherwise)

ON SERVER I get:

ON CLIENT I just get:

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Basically I am firing a lot of psql through unix script on several client machines and a lot of the psql are hanging for some other reasons. I also need to capture the timing of each query. So I need timing to be on.

Doing the following captures the timing but I don't know which psql statement is hanging when I do ps aux|grep psql

echo '\timing \\select * from  ........' | psql

On ps aux|grep psql I just see:

psql -c 'select * from  "DAPP".student_common_data where student_id = 1000 and field_id =1988;'  does make the ps aux more informative but it does not capture the query timing. From what I understand you cannot mix  ('timing + query') in "-c" mode.

So trying to set 'timing on' outside the individual queries (and preferably outside the client machines) somewhere on the server so that psql -c on client would capture the timing automatically.

> From: bruce@momjian.us
> Subject: Re: [ADMIN] Change to 'timing on' globally
> To: b_ki@hotmail.com
> Date: Tue, 6 Jul 2010 10:48:48 -0400
> CC: alvherre@commandprompt.com; pgsql-admin@postgresql.org
>
> Balkrishna Sharma wrote:
> >
> > Thanks. If I want to do at system-wide level, where do I store the
> > psqlrc file (assuming I want to change the timing behavior system-wide)?
>
> > (CentOS 5, Postgres 8.4)
> > $ ./pg_config --sysconfdir/opt/PostgreSQL/8.4/etc/postgresql
>
> > But I don't have /opt/PostgreSQL/8.4/etc/postgresql directory. Just
> > creating the directory and putting a psqlrc file over there does not
> > seem to work.
>
> I just tested it here on Ubuntu and it worked:
>
> $ sudo mkdir etc
> $ sudo mkdir etc/postgresql
> $ cd etc/postgresql/
> $ sudo vi psqlrc
> # add \echo test
> $ pwd
> /opt/PostgreSQL/8.4/etc/postgresql
> $ ../../bin/psql -U postgres postgres
> --> test
> psql (8.4.2)
> Type "help" for help.
>
> postgres=#
>
> > On a side-note, I observered that timing value in ~/.psqlrc was
> > ignored by psql -c "..." command but not by echo "...."|psqlThought
> > it was strange.
>
> Yeah, that is odd.
>
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