Re: Long update progress

From: <mallah(at)trade-india(dot)com>
To: <amarden(at)usa(dot)net>
Cc: <pgsql-admin(at)postgresql(dot)org>, <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Long update progress
Date: 2002-07-19 12:46:38
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create a sequence and somehow involve it in a dummy manner in the update...

do a select current_val('sequence') to see how far updates have gone...

can we see the update stmt?

regds
mallah.

> We have an database batch update process running. It runs normally and
> takes around 6 hours. This is dealing with a much larger data set after
> an error correction. It's been running for 6 days now and people are
> getting twitchy that it might not finish. Is there any way (accepting
> that more preparation would, in retrospect, have been better) to tell
> how far we're got. This iterates round a cursor and updates individual
> rows. The trouble is it commits once at the end.
>
> The ideal would be to find a way of doing a dirty read against the
> table that is bing updated. Then we'd know how many rows had been
> processed.
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Cheers
>
> Andy
>
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