In response to "A. Kretschmer" <andreas.kretschmer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>: > 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. To piggyback on this ... EXPLAIN _is_ the way to know how long your query will take, but keep in mind it's only an _estimate_. Given that, in my experience EXPLAIN is pretty accurate 90% of the time, as long as you analyze frequently enough. -- Bill Moran http://www.potentialtech.com http://people.collaborativefusion.com/~wmoran/ -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general
