My Ruby version is found below. Note it requires the postgres-pr ruby driver. Also note I didn't really ruby-ize it to much...for the most part it's a one-to-one translation. One different thing to note...this script expects you to have postgres-pr installed via rubygems. You can modify the require statements (actually just comment out the rubygems line) if you're is installed in a non-rubygems way. Also note, this requires you to define your connection parameters in env variables, which works in my situation. PG_TIMER_DB - name of the database PG_TIMER_USER - name of database user PG_TIMER_PASS - password of database user PG_TIMER_URI - connection uri that postgres-pr understands. Examples: tcp://localhost:5432 unix:/tmp/.s.PGSQL.5432 Hope it helps someone else. ################################################### require 'rubygems' require 'postgres-pr/connection' $tupleQuery = "SELECT relname, seq_scan, seq_tup_read, idx_scan, idx_tup_fetch FROM pg_stat_all_tables" $blockQuery = "SELECT relname, heap_blks_read, heap_blks_hit, idx_blks_read, idx_blks_hit FROM pg_statio_all_tables" $use_jdbc = false def usage usstr = <<-EOL #{$0} <query> Example: #{$0} "select * from users" Note: the following environment variables MUST be set: PG_TIMER_DB - name of the database PG_TIMER_USER - name of database user PG_TIMER_PASS - password of database user PG_TIMER_URI - connection uri that postgres-pr understands. Examples: tcp://localhost:5432 unix:/tmp/.s.PGSQL.5432 EOL puts usstr exit() end $dbname = ENV['PG_TIMER_DB'] $dbuser = ENV['PG_TIMER_USER'] $dbpass = ENV['PG_TIMER_PASS'] $dburi = ENV['PG_TIMER_URI'] [$dbname, $dbuser, $dbpass, $dburi].each do |one| one.nil? && usage() end class PostgresPR::Connection::Result def get_field_at_row(field, row) idx = @fields.collect{|f|f.name}.index field @rows[row][idx] end end class PureDBUtil def initialize() @conn = PostgresPR::Connection.new($dbname, $dbuser, $dbpass, $dburi) end def start_tran @conn.query("BEGIN") end def commit @conn.query("COMMIT") end def exec(query) @conn.query(query) end end class JDBCDBUtil def initialize(dbname=nil) raise Exception, "not implemented" end end def getTupleValues(tran, table_name=nil) if !table_name.nil? return tran.exec($tupleQuery + " ORDER by relname") else return tran.exec($tupleQuery + " WHERE relname = '#{table_name}' ") end end def getBlockValues(tran, table_name) if !table_name.nil? return tran.exec($blockQuery + " ORDER by relname") else return tran.exec($blockQuery + " WHERE relname = '#{table_name}' ") end end def getDelta(n, beginning, ending, col) endVal = 0 begVal = 0 endVal = ending.get_field_at_row(col, n) begVal = beginning.get_field_at_row(col, n) return endVal.to_f - begVal.to_f; end def getColumnWidth(res, col) max = 0 res.rows.each do |one| if one[col].size > max max = one[col].size end end return max end def fill(len, c) c * len end def printDeltas(begTuples, endTuples, begBlocks, endBlocks) nameWidth = 15 str = "" str << '+' << fill( nameWidth, '-' ) << "+-----------------------------------+----------------------------------+" << "\n"; str << '|' << fill( nameWidth, ' ' ) << "| SEQUENTIAL I/O | INDEXED I/O |" << "\n"; str << '|' << fill( nameWidth, ' ' ) << "| scans | tuples |heap_blks |cached | scans | tuples | idx_blks |cached|" << "\n"; str << '|' << fill( nameWidth, '-' ) << "+-------+--------+-----------+------+-------+--------+----------+------+" << "\n"; totSeqScans = 0 totSeqTuples = 0 totHeapBlks = 0 totHeapHits = 0 totIdxScans = 0 totIdxTuples = 0 totIdxBlks = 0 totIdxHits = 0 tableCount = 0 0.upto begTuples.rows.size-1 do |row| seqScans = getDelta(row, begTuples, endTuples, "seq_scan") seqTuples = getDelta(row, begTuples, endTuples, "seq_tup_read") heapBlks = getDelta(row, begBlocks, endBlocks, "heap_blks_read") heapHits = getDelta(row, begBlocks, endBlocks, "heap_blks_hit") idxScans = getDelta(row, begTuples, endTuples, "idx_scan") idxTuples = getDelta(row, begTuples, endTuples, "idx_tup_fetch") idxBlks = getDelta(row, begBlocks, endBlocks, "idx_blks_read") idxHits = getDelta(row, begBlocks, endBlocks, "idx_blks_hit") if(( seqScans + seqTuples + heapBlks + heapHits + idxScans + idxTuples + idxBlks + idxHits ) > 0 ) str << '|' << begTuples.get_field_at_row("relname", row).ljust(nameWidth); str << '|' << seqScans.to_s.rjust(6) << ' ' str << '|' << seqTuples.to_s.rjust(7) << ' ' str << '|' << heapBlks.to_s.rjust(10) << ' ' str << '|' << heapHits.to_s.rjust(5) << ' ' str << '|' << idxScans.to_s.rjust(6) << ' ' str << '|' << idxTuples.to_s.rjust(7) << ' ' str << '|' << idxBlks.to_s.rjust(9) << ' ' str << '|' << idxHits.to_s.rjust(5) << ' ' str << '|' << "\n" tableCount += 1 totSeqScans += seqScans totSeqTuples += seqTuples totHeapBlks += heapBlks totHeapHits += heapHits totIdxScans += idxScans totIdxTuples += idxTuples totIdxBlks += idxBlks totIdxHits += idxHits end end str << '+' << fill( nameWidth, '-' ) << "+-------+--------+-----------+" << "------+-------+--------+----------+------+\n"; if( tableCount > 1 ) str << '|' << "Totals".ljust(nameWidth) str << '|' << totSeqScans.to_s.rjust(6) << ' '; str << '|' << totSeqTuples.to_s.rjust(7) << ' '; str << '|' << totHeapBlks.to_s.rjust(10) << ' '; str << '|' << totHeapHits.to_s.rjust(5) << ' '; str << '|' << totIdxScans.to_s.rjust(6) << ' '; str << '|' << totIdxTuples.to_s.rjust(7) << ' '; str << '|' << totIdxBlks.to_s.rjust(9) << ' '; str << '|' << totIdxHits.to_s.rjust(5) << ' '; str << '|' << "\n"; str << '+' << fill( nameWidth, '-' ) << "+-------+--------+-----------+" << "------+-------+--------+----------+------+\n"; end puts str end def main(args) arg = args[0] usage() if arg.nil? if $use_jdbc db_class = JDBCDBUtil else db_class = PureDBUtil end tran1 = db_class.new() tran1.start_tran() begTupleValues = getTupleValues(tran1, arg) begBlockValues = getBlockValues(tran1, arg) ignore = tran1.exec(args[0]) tran1.commit() sleep 1 tran2 = db_class.new() endTupleValues = getTupleValues(tran2, arg) endBlockValues = getBlockValues(tran2, arg) printDeltas(begTupleValues, endTupleValues, begBlockValues, endBlockValues) end main(ARGV) ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 6: explain analyze is your friend