On Fri, 2009-02-20 at 17:11 +0100, Torsten Bronger wrote: > Hallöchen! > > Yesterday I ported a web app to PG. Every 10 minutes, a cron job > scanned the log files of MySQL and generated a plot showing the > queries/sec for the last 24h. (Admittedly queries/sec is not the > holy grail of DB statistics.) > > But I still like to have something like this. At the moment I just > do the same with PG's log file, with > > log_statement_stats = on > > But to generate these plots is costly (e.g. I don't need all the > lines starting with !), and to interpret them is equally costly. Do > you have a suggestion for a better approach? > Do you want queries, or transactions? If you want transactions you already have that in pg_stat_database. Just do this every 10 minutes: psql -U <user> -d <database> -c "select now() as time,sum(xact_commit) as transactions from pg_stat_Database" Joshua D. Drake > Tschö, > Torsten. > > -- > Torsten Bronger, aquisgrana, europa vetus > Jabber ID: torsten.bronger@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > > -- PostgreSQL - XMPP: jdrake@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Consulting, Development, Support, Training 503-667-4564 - http://www.commandprompt.com/ The PostgreSQL Company, serving since 1997 -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general