Hi, I already made a discussion about it. We can view the Logical I/Os. If we enable the log_statement_stats in the conf file and apply the following patch, it is possible. But putting it in Explain analyze makes more sense to me.
*** postgresql-8.3beta1/src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c Tue Sep 25 18:11:48 2007 --- postgresql-8.3patch/src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c Fri Oct 19 23:18:36 2007 *************** *** 1470,1477 **** localhitrate = (float) LocalBufferHitCount *100.0 / ReadLocalBufferCount; appendStringInfo(&str, ! "!\tShared blocks: %10ld read, %10ld written, buffer hit rate = %.2f%%\n", ! ReadBufferCount - BufferHitCount, BufferFlushCount, hitrate); appendStringInfo(&str, "!\tLocal blocks: %10ld read, %10ld written, buffer hit rate = %.2f%%\n", ReadLocalBufferCount - LocalBufferHitCount, LocalBufferFlushCount, localhitrate); --- 1470,1477 ---- localhitrate = (float) LocalBufferHitCount *100.0 / ReadLocalBufferCount; appendStringInfo(&str, ! "!\tShared blocks: %10ld Logical Reads, %10ld Physical Reads, %10ld written, buffer hit rate = %.2f%%\n", ! ReadBufferCount, ReadBufferCount - BufferHitCount, BufferFlushCount, hitrate); appendStringInfo(&str, "!\tLocal blocks: %10ld read, %10ld written, buffer hit rate = %.2f%%\n", ReadLocalBufferCount - LocalBufferHitCount, LocalBufferFlushCount, localhitrate); -- Thanks, Gokul. CertoSQL Project, Allied Solution Group. (www.alliedgroups.com)