From: Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>
Message-Id: <200209231448.g8NEmU311122@candle.pha.pa.us>
Subject: Re: [SQL] Monitoring a Query
In-Reply-To: <20020923134756.GB30392@cc.usu.edu>
To: Roberto Mello <rmello@cc.usu.edu>
Date: Mon, 23 Sep 2002 10:48:30 -0400 (EDT)
Cc: Neil Conway <neilc@samurai.com>, Aaron Held <aaron@MetroNY.com>,
	pgsql-sql@postgresql.org, pgsql-general@postgresql.org
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Roberto Mello wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 22, 2002 at 09:51:55PM -0400, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> > > 
> > > 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.
> 
> OpenACS has a package called "Developer Support" that shows you (among
> other things) how long a query took to be executed. Very good to finding 
> out slow-running queries that need to be optimized.

7.3 will have GUC 'log_duration' which will show query duration.

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