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Feature: Per-statement timing with -p flag

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Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Newbie friendliness
38/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
go, sql
Domain
cli, performance

Research direction

Start by tracing the existing -p timing path and the timing infrastructure used for :PERFTRACE, then identify where individual statements in a batch are executed. Done means the selected timing mode reports each statement's execution time while preserving the batch total and existing output.

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Description

enhancement

Summary

Add per-statement timing information when using the -p flag, showing execution time for each individual statement in a batch rather than just the batch total.

Use Case

  • Identify slow queries within multi-statement batches
  • Performance tuning and optimization
  • Query profiling during development

Current Behavior

With -p flag, only the total batch execution time is shown:

Network packet size (bytes): 4096
1 xact(s):
Clock Time (ms.): total       150

Proposed Behavior

Show timing for each statement within a batch:

-- Statement 1: SELECT * FROM users
Clock Time (ms.): 45

-- Statement 2: SELECT * FROM orders  
Clock Time (ms.): 105

Network packet size (bytes): 4096
2 xact(s):
Clock Time (ms.): total       150

Implementation Notes

  • Track timing at the statement level, not just batch level
  • Consider making this an optional enhancement to -p (e.g., -p2 for verbose timing)
  • Leverage existing timing infrastructure used for :PERFTRACE
Dominant language
Go
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595
Forks
91
Avg merge
9h 35m
Merged PRs (30d)
1

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