On Tue, Sep 27, 2016 at 5:03 PM, Mike Sofen <mso...@runbox.com> wrote:
> Hi gang, > > > > On PG 9.5.1, linux, I’m running some large ETL operations, migrate data > from a legacy mysql system into PG, upwards of 250m rows in a transaction > (it’s on a big box). It’s always a 2 step operation – extract raw mysql > data and pull it to the target big box into staging tables that match the > source, the second step being read the landed dataset and transform it into > the final formats, linking to newly generated ids, compressing big subsets > into jsonb documents, etc. > > > > While I could break it into smaller chunks, it hasn’t been necessary, and > it doesn’t eliminate my need: how to view the state of a transaction in > flight, seeing how many rows have been read or inserted (possible for a > transaction in flight?), memory allocations across the various PG > processes, etc. > > > > Possible or a hallucination? > > > > Mike Sofen (Synthetic Genomics) > AFAIK, it is not currently possible to monitor the progress/status of a query. However, I do see that this is planned for "sometime in the future". *https://postgresql.uservoice.com/forums/21853-general/suggestions/249745-query-progress-reported-by-percentage-in-pg-stat <https://postgresql.uservoice.com/forums/21853-general/suggestions/249745-query-progress-reported-by-percentage-in-pg-stat>* -- *Melvin Davidson* I reserve the right to fantasize. Whether or not you wish to share my fantasy is entirely up to you.
