Re: background process? - Mailing list pgadmin-support

From Guillaume Lelarge
Subject Re: background process?
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Msg-id 1341678268.8490.0.camel@localhost.localdomain
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In response to background process?  (Michael Shapiro <mshapiro51@gmail.com>)
Responses Re: background process?
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On Sat, 2012-07-07 at 10:45 -0500, Michael Shapiro wrote:
> Is it possible to run an update in the background? I have an update to 23+
> million records that will very likely take a few hours.
> Is it possible to issue the update in PgAdmin, and then exit PgAdmin and
> have the update continue on the server?

No, that's not possible. As soon as you quit pgadmin, the connection is
dropped, and your statement is rollbacked.


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