| From: | Andrew Gierth <andrew(at)tao11(dot)riddles(dot)org(dot)uk> |
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| To: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
| Cc: | Peter Eisentraut <peter(dot)eisentraut(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Corey Huinker <corey(dot)huinker(at)gmail(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: \timing interval |
| Date: | 2016-07-09 20:00:25 |
| Message-ID: | 871t327feo.fsf@news-spur.riddles.org.uk |
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>>>>> "Tom" == Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> writes:
> Peter Eisentraut <peter(dot)eisentraut(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> writes:
>> I'm not quite sure what you mean by wanting to do arithmetic on the
>> numbers. My phrasing of the problem is that after a long query, you
>> might get output like this:
>> Time: 1234567.666 ms
>> which is pretty useless.
Tom> What I mean by that is that not infrequently, I'll run the same
Tom> query several times and then want to average the results. That's
Tom> easy with awk or similar scripts as long as the numbers are in
Tom> straight decimal.
Tom> I don't mind if we provide a way to print in Babylonian-inspired
Tom> notation(s) as well, but I'm going to be seriously annoyed if
Tom> that's the only way to get the output.
How about
Time: 1234567.666 ms (20m 34.6s)
?
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Andrew (irc:RhodiumToad)
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