On Sun, Apr 30, 2006 at 16:36:04 -0700,
k992637(at)yahoo(dot)com wrote:
> as I can tell) see the intermediate stage of processing. What I would
> ideally like is to be able to update a log table which stored how many
> values of A were selected and how many values of A have finished
> calculating, updating this every 5 iterations or so. However I will
> never see an intermediate state in this table due to transactions (is
> this correct?).
If you use a trusted PL language, you can write to files which will probably
allow you to do what you want.