Jeff Janes <jeff.ja...@gmail.com> writes: > I'd like to run same query repeatedly and see how long it takes each time. > I thought \watch would be excellent for this, but it turns out that using > \watch suppresses the output of \timing.
> Is this intentional, or unavoidable? \watch uses PSQLexec not SendQuery; the latter implements \timing which I agree is arguably useful here, but also autocommit/auto-savepoint behavior which probably isn't a good idea. It might be a good idea to refactor those two routines into one routine with some sort of bitmap flags argument to control the various add-on behaviors, but that seems like not 9.3 material anymore. > Also, is it just or does the inability to watch more frequently than once a > second make it a lot less useful than it could be? It did not seem that exciting to me. In particular, we've already found out that \watch with zero delay is a pretty bad idea, so you'd have to make a case for what smaller minimum to use if it's not to be 1 second. regards, tom lane -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers