On Tue, 2009-06-30 at 07:04 +0200, Dimitri Fontaine wrote: > Le 30 juin 2009 à 01:34, Greg Stark <gsst...@mit.edu> a écrit : > > Basically I disagree that imperfect progress reports annoy users. I > > think we can do better than reporting 250% done or having a percentage > > that goes backward though. It would be quite tolerable (though perhaps > > for no logical reason) to have a progress indicator which slows done > > as it gets closer to 100% and never seems to make it to 100%. > > I guess bad stats are such an important problem in planning queries > that a 250% progress is doing more good than harm in showing users how > badly they need to review their analyze related settings.
Yeh, I agree. We can define it as "planned work", rather than actual. So if the progress bar says 250% and query is still going at least you know it is doing more work, rather than just being slow at doing the planned work. -- Simon Riggs www.2ndQuadrant.com PostgreSQL Training, Services and Support -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
