On Dec 27, 2012, at 12:46 PM, Tom Lane wrote:
> Or you could run contrib/pgstattuple's pgstattuple() function every so
> often --- it will report the uncommitted tuples as "dead", which is
> inaccurate, but you'd be able to see how fast the number is increasing.
That's exactly the kind of thing I was hoping for. I'm actually inserting into an empty table, so "dead" tuples would
bedead accurate in my case ;-)
Or I could suck it up and do them in batches instead of one giant pass...
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