On Dec 27, 2012, at 12:46 PM, Tom Lane wrote: > 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. That's exactly the kind of thing I was hoping for. I'm actually inserting into an empty table, so "dead" tuples would be dead accurate in my case ;-) Or I could suck it up and do them in batches instead of one giant pass... -- Scott Ribe scott_ribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://www.elevated-dev.com/ (303) 722-0567 voice -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general