Scott Ribe <scott_ribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > Is there any way to get some insight into the progress of: > insert into foo select distinct on (...) from bar where... Watching the physical size of the foo table might be close enough. Or you could run contrib/pgstattuple's pgstattuple() function every so often --- it will report the uncommitted tuples as "dead", which is inaccurate, but you'd be able to see how fast the number is increasing. regards, tom lane -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general