From: Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>
Message-Id: <200209230151.g8N1ptW22413@candle.pha.pa.us>
Subject: Re: Monitoring a Query
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To: Neil Conway <neilc@samurai.com>
Date: Sun, 22 Sep 2002 21:51:55 -0400 (EDT)
Cc: Aaron Held <aaron@MetroNY.com>, pgsql-sql@postgresql.org,
	pgsql-general@postgresql.org
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Neil Conway wrote:
> Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us> writes:
> > Aaron Held wrote:
> > > Is there any way to monitor a long running query?
> > 
> > Oh, sorry, you want to know how far the query has progressed.  Gee, I
> > don't think there is any easy way to do that.
> 
> Would it be a good idea to add the time that the current query began
> execution at to pg_stat_activity?

What do people think about this?  It seems like a good idea to me.

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