In response to Torsten Bronger <bron...@physik.rwth-aachen.de>: > Hallöchen! > > Yesterday I ported a web app to PG. Every 10 minutes, a cron job > scanned the log files of MySQL and generated a plot showing the > queries/sec for the last 24h. (Admittedly queries/sec is not the > holy grail of DB statistics.) > > But I still like to have something like this. At the moment I just > do the same with PG's log file, with > > log_statement_stats = on > > But to generate these plots is costly (e.g. I don't need all the > lines starting with !), and to interpret them is equally costly. Do > you have a suggestion for a better approach?
Turn on stats collection and have a look at the various pg_stat* tables. They'll have stats that you can quickly access with considerably lower overhead. Doing it the way you're doing is driving from Pittsburgh to Maine to get to Ohio. -- Bill Moran http://www.potentialtech.com http://people.collaborativefusion.com/~wmoran/ -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general
