> Bruce Momjian writes:
>
> > It does this by creating a global variable 'debug_query_string' and
> > assigning it when the query begins and clearing it when the query ends.
>
> You can find out the current query for a given backend by configuring the
> server with "debug_print_query on" and "log_pids on" and running
>
> sed -n "/[$pid]/"'s/^.*query: \(.*\)$/\1/p' $logfile
>
> This doesn't tell you whether the query is still running, but ps tells you
> that. In fact, it might be an idea to add a logging option that prints
> something like "query finished in xxx ms". We actually have something
> similar hidden under show_query_stats, but the formatting needs to be made
> more convenient and possibly less verbose. But at least this way you have
> it for the record, and not only on the screen.
Yes, I thought of that idea. I wasn't sure I would be able to find the
log file in any installation-independent way, or even if a log file was
even being kept.
And I was afraid some people wouldn't want to log all queries.
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