Re: Query progress indication - an implementation - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Joshua Tolley
Subject Re: Query progress indication - an implementation
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Msg-id 20090629183359.GD25336@eddie
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In response to Re: Query progress indication - an implementation  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
Responses Re: Query progress indication - an implementation  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 02:07:23PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com> writes:
> > So, while an actual % completed indicator would be perfect, a "query
> > steps completed, current step =" would still be very useful and a large
> > improvement over what we have now.
>
> I think this is pretty much nonsense --- most queries run all their plan
> nodes concurrently to some extent.  You can't usefully say that a query
> is "on" some node, nor measure progress by whether some node is "done".

What about showing the outermost node where work has started?

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Josh / eggyknap
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