On Feb 27, 2008, at 5:25 PM, Kynn Jones wrote:
(Sorry for asking so many questions!)
What techniques can one use to monitor the progress of a stored
procedure?
Specifically, how can I get the procedure to print a progress
indicator message to the screen every once in a while?
I have a stored procedure that has been running for a very long
time. Before doing the current "real" run, I tested the procedure
on a toy case and confirmed that it produced the right result. So
I know that when it finishes it will be OK, but I can't tell
whether it will finish in an hour or in a century... I have no
idea of how far along it is. (In case it matters, the procedure is
written in PL/perl. I tried to use Perl's print statement,
unbuffered, to print out a message periodically from within the
procedure, but I see no output.)
Thanks in advance,
Read up on this chapter: http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.2/
interactive/plpgsql-errors-and-messages.html
Erik Jones
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