Re: Query progress indication - an implementation

Tom Lane wrote:
> Joshua Tolley <eggyknap@gmail.com> writes:
> > On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 02:07:23PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> >> I think this is pretty much nonsense --- most queries run all their plan
> >> nodes concurrently to some extent.  You can't usefully say that a query
> >> is "on" some node, nor measure progress by whether some node is "done".
> 
> > What about showing the outermost node where work has started?
> 
> That's always the outermost node; what would it tell you?

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I think the only resonable solution would be to consider the estimated
cost of each node and then compute what percentage complete each node
is.

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