Can I monitor a SELECT REFRESH_COLUMNS ( 'table' )

I've a table with 2 billions records and I'm testing the "amazing" feature called "Flattened Table". My question is, can I monitor a refresh_columns? I'm waiting for 6 hours and don't know what's happening.
Thank you

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  • Below table gives progress about projections being refreshed for a given table..

    PROJECTION_REFRESHES
  • [Deleted User][Deleted User] Administrator

    6 hours is lot of time . Do you have support contract ? if yes please open support case so that we can review further.

  • Yes Skamat we have contract. How can I send this problem to you. Today I spent 96,000 seconds in one refresh

  • [Deleted User][Deleted User] Administrator

    Please open support ticket and include note to pass it to shrirang .

  • brochabrocha Vertica Customer

    is there an answer to the original question? Is there a way to monitor progress of SELECT REFRESH_COLUMNS (with rebuild as the refresh method).
    (The suggested answer is for projection refresh not column refresh)
    Also if need to rebuild columns in multiple big tables will calling a single refresh_columns command with comma separated list of tables do the tables sequentially or in parallel?

  • SergeBSergeB - Select Field - Employee

    I believe this DC table dc_refresh_columns contains that information.

  • Jim_KnicelyJim_Knicely - Select Field - Administrator

    That's correct! The dc_refresh_columns Data Collector table was introduced in Vertica 9.3:

    dbadmin=> SELECT DISTINCT description FROM data_collector WHERE table_name = 'dc_refresh_columns';
               description
    ---------------------------------
     History of all column refreshes
    (1 row)
    

    See:
    https://www.vertica.com/docs/ReleaseNotes/9.3.x/Vertica_9.3.x_Release_Notes.htm

    In particular:

    VER-68379 - Calls to REFRESH_COLUMNS can now be monitored in the new "dc_refresh_columns" table, which logs, for every call to REFRESH_COLUMNS, the time of the call, the name of the table, the refreshed columns, the mode used, the minimum and maximum key values, and the epoch.

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