Hi, I want to find the time taken by this process ...retrieving data from oracle database using java and copying that to postgres using copy. So I need something like this Start_Time|java testCode ...|psql -c "copy dummy from stdin with delimiter ',' null 'NULL'" test| End_time so that the output is like this Start_time 2009-02-19 11:30:15 End_time 2009-02-19 11:40:15 This should give me the time this process started and the time it ended. Is that possible? Thanks Sharmila -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general