Simon Riggs <simon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > The idea I just had was: why do we need EXPLAIN ANALYZE to run to > completion? In severe cases like this thread, we might be able to > discover the root cause by a *partial* execution of the plan, as long as > it was properly instrumented. That way, the OP might have been able to > discover the root cause himself... An alternate approach would be to implement a SIGINFO handler that prints out the explain analyze output for the data built up so far. You would be able to keep hitting C-t and keep getting updates until the query completes or you decided to hit C-c. I'm not sure how easy this would be to implement but it sure would be nice from a user's point of view. Much nicer than having to specify some arbitrary limit before running the query. -- greg
