Amitabh
On Fri, Oct 28, 2011 at 11:24 AM, Jeff Davis <pgsql@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Mon, 2011-10-24 at 19:34 +0530, Amitabh Kant wrote:Yes, approximately. It relies on the stats messages.
> If I read the xact_commit field returned by "Select * from
> pg_stat_database" multiple times, and then average the difference
> between consecutive values, would this give an approx idea about the
> transactions per second in my database?
Yes, a quick test shows that select statements count as well. However,
> Does this figure include the number of select statements being
> executed in the db?
>
it seems that very simple selects, like "SELECT 1" might not send the
stats messages right away, and they might end up getting lost.
Regards,
Jeff Davis
