2013/1/11 Stephen Frost <sfrost@snowman.net>:
> * Tom Lane (tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us) wrote:
>> Simon Riggs <simon@2ndQuadrant.com> writes:
>> > An even better feature would be to be able to send a signal to a
>> > running query to log its currently executing plan. That way you can
>> > ask "Why so slow?" before deciding to kill it.
>>
>> That could conceivably work. At least it wouldn't require running
>> EXPLAIN in a failed transaction.
>
> I like this idea, in general, also. Taking that to the next level would
> be figuring out how you can do the same kind of thing through an
> interactive psql session where the user running the query doesn't need
> access to the database server or PG log files...
>
this is simple - it can be printed via elog(WARNING, ...) to original console
> We can send a 'cancel query', how about a 'report on query' which
> returns the plan and perhaps whatever other stats are easily available?
there is only one question - that POSIX signal we can use?
Pavel
>
> Thanks,
>
> Stephen