Re: Measuring CPU time use? (Another stupid question)

From: Jessica Blank <jb(at)twu(dot)net>
To: Justin Clift <justin(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Cc: Joe Conway <mail(at)joeconway(dot)com>, "scott(dot)marlowe" <scott(dot)marlowe(at)ihs(dot)com>, <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Measuring CPU time use? (Another stupid question)
Date: 2002-12-18 22:36:57
Message-ID: Pine.LNX.4.44.0212181536140.392-100000@ensim.rackshack.net
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Bllllleleeeuuuughhh...

I'd rather not touch Red Hat's stuff.. or ANYTHING with "Explain" in the
name >G< Thank you for the info tho...

I would much rather just get the info via a simple command line, or a line
of SQL, or something I can do in Perl....

On Thu, 19 Dec 2002, Justin Clift wrote:

> Joe Conway wrote:
> > Jessica Blank wrote:
> >
> >> I suppose I should rephrase.
> > [...snip...]
> >> So I guess what I'm saying is that I don't care so much about CPU
> >> time, or I/O time, but *TOTAL* time. How long it takes from the
> >> instant the query hits Postgres to the instant I get my results back...
> >
> >
> > That's pretty much exactly what EXPLAIN ANALYZE does for you. And along
> > with it, you get other useful information to help you improve the query.
>
> Red Hat recently released their "Visual Explain 1.1" tool as well, and that looks like it could be very useful for what
> Jessica's after too:
>
> http://sources.redhat.com/rhdb/tools.html
>
> :-)
>
> Regards and best wishes,
>
> Justin Clift
>
>
> > Joe
>
>
>
>

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