Date: 2018-02-08 07:30:45 +0100
From: @drstmane
To: clients devs <>
Version: 11.27.11 (Jul2017-SP3)

Last updated: 2018-03-29 15:39:07 +0200

Comment 26171

Date: 2018-02-08 07:30:45 +0100
From: @drstmane

timing output of mclient -t / --timer= should go to stderr rather than stdout

Comment 26174

Date: 2018-02-08 08:58:23 +0100
From: MonetDB Mercurial Repository <>

Changeset efcbf80ad9b0 made by Stefan Manegold Stefan.Manegold@cwi.nl in the MonetDB repo, refers to this bug.

For complete details, see https//devmonetdborg/hg/MonetDB?cmd=changeset;node=efcbf80ad9b0

Changeset description:

mclient manpage: warn about default --timer=clock invalidating csv, tab, xml output formats
(as long as the timing output stil goes to stdout rather than stderr;
 cf., feature request / bug #6536)

Comment 26178

Date: 2018-02-08 09:41:37 +0100
From: @drstmane

for an alternative (or addition?), see also feature request / bug #6537.

much like feature request / bug #6537 this is mainly to avoid that the default timing output compromises/invalidates the format of mclient's output formatters csv, tab, xml.

Comment 26194

Date: 2018-02-14 09:56:52 +0100
From: MonetDB Mercurial Repository <>

Changeset 78546e443dd3 made by Stefan Manegold Stefan.Manegold@cwi.nl in the MonetDB repo, refers to this bug.

For complete details, see https//devmonetdborg/hg/MonetDB?cmd=changeset;node=78546e443dd3

Changeset description:

mclient, timerHuman(): report all timing on stderr rather than stdout,
as per feature request / bug #6536 .

Comment 26196

Date: 2018-02-14 10:16:40 +0100
From: @drstmane

Fixed / implemented by changeset 78546e443dd3 .

Comment 26301

Date: 2018-03-29 15:39:07 +0200
From: @sjoerdmullender

The Mar2018 version has been released.