--- On Thu, 2/19/09, Tom Lane <tgl@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > From: Tom Lane <tgl@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Subject: Re: How to pipe the psql copy command to Unix 'Date' command > To: sharmi_jo@xxxxxxxxx > Cc: "General postgres mailing list" <pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Date: Thursday, February 19, 2009, 12:31 PM > SHARMILA JOTHIRAJAH <sharmi_jo@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > > 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 > > time java testCode ...|psql -c "copy dummy from stdin > with delimiter ',' null 'NULL'" test > > Or do you really insist on doing the timestamp subtraction > by hand? > > No...I would definitely prefer to get the time elapsed between the start of the java program and the end of the copy command... Is that possible ? If not at least the start and the end time so tht i can do the calculation myself Thanks Sharmila -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general