| From: | Robert Treat <xzilla(at)users(dot)sourceforge(dot)net> |
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| To: | pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Cc: | "Joshua D(dot) Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com>, Greg Stark <gsstark(at)mit(dot)edu>, Hannu Krosing <hannu(at)skype(dot)net>, Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> |
| Subject: | Re: Online index builds |
| Date: | 2006-07-16 15:48:17 |
| Message-ID: | 200607161148.18254.xzilla@users.sourceforge.net |
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On Saturday 15 July 2006 21:37, Joshua D. Drake wrote:
> > That said I'm not sure how much I can do here. For a substantial index we
> > should expect most of the time will be spent in the tuplesort. It's hard
> > to see how to get any sort of progress indicator out of there and as long
> > as we can't it's hard to see the point of getting one during the heap
> > scan or any of the other i/o operations.
>
> Well from a DBA perspective, just knowing that "something" productive is
> happening is useful.
>
> When using vacuum I almost always use vacuum verbose, just so I have an
> idea of what is going on.
>
+1
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Robert Treat
Build A Brighter LAMP :: Linux Apache {middleware} PostgreSQL
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