In response to John Gage : > I ran a query out of pgAdmin, and (as I expected) it took a long > time. In fact, I did not let it finish. I stopped it after a little > over an hour. > > I'm using 8.4.2 on a Mac with a 2.4GHz processor and 2GB of RAM. > > My question is: is there a way to tell how close the query is to being > finished. It would be a great pity if the query would have finished > in the 10 seconds after I quit it, but I had no way of telling. > > As a postscript, I would add that the query was undoubtedly too > ambitious. I have a reduced set version which I will run shortly. > But I am still curious to know if there is a way to tell how much time > is left. No, not really. But you can (and should) run EXPLAIN <your query> to obtain the execution plan for that query, und you can show us this plan (and the table-definition for all included tables). Maybe someone is able to tell you what you can do to speed up your query. And yes, have you tuned your postgresql.conf? Regards, Andreas -- Andreas Kretschmer Kontakt: Heynitz: 035242/47150, D1: 0160/7141639 (mehr: -> Header) GnuPG: 0x31720C99, 1006 CCB4 A326 1D42 6431 2EB0 389D 1DC2 3172 0C99 -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general
