lately i did sth similar in one of our servers, to keep track of active, idle and idle in transaction connections so as to make some optimization in the connection pooling and i didn't notice any serious io activity there (had the cron job run every minute). so imho unless the server is seriously io bound at the moment, you won't notice any difference -- View this message in context: http://postgresql.1045698.n5.nabble.com/How-to-track-number-of-connections-and-hosts-to-Postgres-cluster-tp4729546p4732518.html Sent from the PostgreSQL - performance mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- Sent via pgsql-performance mailing list (pgsql-performance@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-performance
