On Mon, Jan 16, 2006 at 09:21:55AM +0100, H.J. Sanders wrote: > Thanks for you answer. I've looked for the stats but I could not find > it in our 7.4 , but I will look further (perhaps SUSE didn't > install them). How did you look? You shouldn't have to install anything extra; statistics collection is built-in to the backend. It's generally not enabled by default, however, so you might have to modify your server configuration (postgresql.conf). See "Statistics Collection Configuration" in the documentation: http://www.postgresql.org/docs/7.4/interactive/monitoring-stats.html -- Michael Fuhr