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From: Andrew Sullivan <ajs@crankycanuck.ca>
To: pgsql-performance@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: TIMING A QUERY ???
Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2007 11:39:11 -0400
Message-ID: <20070711153911.GQ1241@phlogiston.dyndns.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <11542393.post@talk.nabble.com>
References: <11542393.post@talk.nabble.com>

On Wed, Jul 11, 2007 at 08:21:40AM -0700, smiley2211 wrote:
> 
> How can I get the time it takes a query to execute - explain analyze is
> taking over 5 hours to complete

You can't get it any faster than what explain analyse does: it runs
the query.  How else would you get the answer?

> ...can I use \timing???  I don't get any time when using the
> \timing option...

How so?  It returns Time: N ms at the end of output for me.

A

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Andrew Sullivan  | ajs@crankycanuck.ca
In the future this spectacle of the middle classes shocking the avant-
garde will probably become the textbook definition of Postmodernism. 
                --Brad Holland



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