Re: Long update progress

The trouble is, the update's running at the moment - it's
actually a cursor with the updtae running for each selected row
in the cursor. If it's a case of running it again, I'll put a
commit every 'n' in there so that we see things. What I need to
be able to gauge is what has happened in the procedure so far.
Alternatively, if I could force it to abort, but commit what
it's done so far externally, then that would be fine too.

----- Original Message -----
From: <mallah(at)trade-india(dot)com>
To: <amarden(at)usa(dot)net>
Cc: <pgsql-admin(at)postgresql(dot)org>; <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Sent: Friday, July 19, 2002 1:46 PM
Subject: Re: [ADMIN] Long update progress

>
> create a sequence and somehow involve it in a dummy manner in
the update...
>
> do a select current_val('sequence') to see how far updates
have gone...
>
> can we see the update stmt?
>
> regds
> mallah.
>
>
> > We have an database batch update process running. It runs
normally and
> > takes around 6 hours. This is dealing with a much larger
data set after
> > an error correction. It's been running for 6 days now and
people are
> > getting twitchy that it might not finish. Is there any way
(accepting
> > that more preparation would, in retrospect, have been
better) to tell
> > how far we're got. This iterates round a cursor and updates
individual
> > rows. The trouble is it commits once at the end.
> >
> > The ideal would be to find a way of doing a dirty read
against the
> > table that is bing updated. Then we'd know how many rows had
been
> > processed.
> >
> > Any ideas?
> >
> > Cheers
> >
> > Andy
> >
> >
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