Re: [HACKERS] [PATCH] New command to monitor progression of longrunning queries

On 5 May 2017 at 22:38, Vinayak Pokale <vinpokale@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Mon, Apr 17, 2017 at 9:09 PM, Remi Colinet <remi.colinet@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> Hello,
>>
>> I've implemented a new command named PROGRESS to monitor progression of
>> long running SQL queries in a backend process.
>>
> Thank you for the patch.
>

sorry if i'm bikeshedding to soon but... why a command instead of a function?
something like pg_progress_backend() will be in sync with
pg_cancel_backend()/pg_terminate_backend() and the result of such a
function could be usable by a tool to examine a slow query status

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