Hi Christopher,

On Mon, 2005-11-07 at 12:37 +0800, Christopher Kings-Lynne wrote:
> > Now *I* am confused. What does PgAdmin do more than giving the query to
> > the database?
> 
> It builds it into the data grid GUI object.
But my initial question was about a query that does not produce data at
all (well, a response from the server saying it is finished). I broke
that query off after several hours.

I am now running the query from my initial question with psql (now for
>1 hour, in a transaction, fsyn off).

Some statistics :

uptime:
06:35:55 up  9:47,  6 users,  load average: 7.08, 7.21, 6.08

iostat -x -k 1 (this output appears to be representative):

avg-cpu:  %user   %nice    %sys %iowait   %idle
           1.00    0.00    0.50   98.51    0.00

Device:         sda             sdb

rrqm/s          0.00            0.00
wrqm/s          14.00           611.00
r/s             0.00            1.00
w/s             3.00            201.00
rsec/s          0.00            32.00
wsec/s          136.00          6680.00
rkB/s           0.00            16.00
wkB/s           68.00           3340.00 
avgrq-sz        45.33           33.23
avgqu-sz        0.00            145.67
await           0.67            767.19
svctm           0.67            4.97
%util           0.20            100.30


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