2013/1/11 Pavel Stehule <[email protected]>:
> 2013/1/11 Stephen Frost <[email protected]>:
>> * Tom Lane ([email protected]) wrote:
>>> Simon Riggs <[email protected]> writes:
>>> > An even better feature would be to be able to send a signal to a
>>> > running query to log its currently executing plan. That way you can
>>> > ask "Why so slow?" before deciding to kill it.
>>>
>>> That could conceivably work.  At least it wouldn't require running
>>> EXPLAIN in a failed transaction.
>>
>> I like this idea, in general, also.  Taking that to the next level would
>> be figuring out how you can do the same kind of thing through an
>> interactive psql session where the user running the query doesn't need
>> access to the database server or PG log files...
>>
>
> this is simple - it can be printed via elog(WARNING, ...) to original console

theoretically we can show current state via EXPLAIN ANALYSE result

>
>> We can send a 'cancel query', how about a 'report on query' which
>> returns the plan and perhaps whatever other stats are easily available?
>
> there is only one question - that POSIX signal we can use?
>
> Pavel
>
>>
>>         Thanks,
>>
>>                 Stephen


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