Re: Monitoring a Query

From: Aaron Held <aaron(at)MetroNY(dot)com>
To: Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Neil Conway <neilc(at)samurai(dot)com>, pgsql-sql(at)postgresql(dot)org, pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Monitoring a Query
Date: 2002-09-23 13:24:38
Message-ID: 3D8F1616.3040509@MetroNY.com
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Bruce Momjian wrote:
> Neil Conway wrote:
>
>>Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> writes:
>>
>>>Aaron Held wrote:
>>>
>>>>Is there any way to monitor a long running query?
>>>
>>>Oh, sorry, you want to know how far the query has progressed. Gee, I
>>>don't think there is any easy way to do that.
>>
>>Would it be a good idea to add the time that the current query began
>>execution at to pg_stat_activity?
>
>
> What do people think about this? It seems like a good idea to me.
>

My application marks the start time of each query and I have found it
very useful. The users like to see how long each query took, and the
admin can take a quick look and see how many queries are running and how
long each has been active for. Good for debugging and billing.

-Aaron Held

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