Re: [GENERAL] How long will the query take

2010-03-29 Thread John Gage
I will report back on this and attempt to give the particulars. It will take 24 hours due to other time commitments. Thank you very much for explaining :) this to me. When I used only the first 10,000 rows of the 100+ thousand rows in the original table (of two tables) I was working with,

Re: [GENERAL] How long will the query take

2010-03-29 Thread Bill Moran
In response to Andreas Kretschmer : > Bill Moran wrote: > > > > No, not really. But you can (and should) run EXPLAIN to > > > obtain the execution plan for that query, und you can show us this plan > > > (and the table-definition for all included tables). Maybe someone is able > > > to tell you

Re: [GENERAL] How long will the query take

2010-03-29 Thread Andreas Kretschmer
Bill Moran wrote: > > No, not really. But you can (and should) run EXPLAIN to > > obtain the execution plan for that query, und you can show us this plan > > (and the table-definition for all included tables). Maybe someone is able > > to tell you what you can do to speed up your query. > > To

Re: [GENERAL] How long will the query take

2010-03-29 Thread Bill Moran
In response to "A. Kretschmer" : > In response to John Gage : > > I ran a query out of pgAdmin, and (as I expected) it took a long > > time. In fact, I did not let it finish. I stopped it after a little > > over an hour. > > > > I'm using 8.4.2 on a Mac with a 2.4GHz processor and 2GB of RA

Re: [GENERAL] How long will the query take

2010-03-29 Thread A. Kretschmer
In response to John Gage : > I ran a query out of pgAdmin, and (as I expected) it took a long > time. In fact, I did not let it finish. I stopped it after a little > over an hour. > > I'm using 8.4.2 on a Mac with a 2.4GHz processor and 2GB of RAM. > > My question is: is there a way to tell

[GENERAL] How long will the query take

2010-03-29 Thread John Gage
I ran a query out of pgAdmin, and (as I expected) it took a long time. In fact, I did not let it finish. I stopped it after a little over an hour. I'm using 8.4.2 on a Mac with a 2.4GHz processor and 2GB of RAM. My question is: is there a way to tell how close the query is to being finis