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Diagnose Running Queries On Postgres Database

This document contains summaries of various PostgreSQL queries to monitor and analyze database performance and activity. It includes queries to view running queries, number and size of rows in tables, cache hit rates, top queries by count, long running queries, and queries with locks.

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Diagnose Running Queries On Postgres Database

This document contains summaries of various PostgreSQL queries to monitor and analyze database performance and activity. It includes queries to view running queries, number and size of rows in tables, cache hit rates, top queries by count, long running queries, and queries with locks.

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# Queries running

docker exec -it stackdevelop_dbhost_1 psql -U postgres -c "select


datname,pid,user,state,query from pg_stat_activity where state !='idle';"

# Number of rows of table


docker exec -it stackmaster_dbhost_1 psql -U postgres -d camunda -c "SELECT
reltuples as approximate_row_count FROM pg_class WHERE relname =
'act_ru_meter_log';"

# Size of table
docker exec -it stackmaster_dbhost_1 psql -U postgres -d camunda -c "SELECT
pg_size_pretty( pg_total_relation_size('act_ru_meter_log') );"

# Show rows from table


docker exec -it stackproduction_dbhost_1 psql -U postgres -d camunda -c "SELECT *
FROM act_ru_meter_log;"

-- show running queries (9.2)


SELECT pid, age(clock_timestamp(), query_start), usename, query
FROM pg_stat_activity
WHERE query != '<IDLE>' AND query NOT ILIKE '%pg_stat_activity%'
ORDER BY query_start desc;

-- cache hit rates (should not be less than 0.99)


SELECT sum(heap_blks_read) as heap_read, sum(heap_blks_hit) as heap_hit,
(sum(heap_blks_hit) - sum(heap_blks_read)) / sum(heap_blks_hit) as ratio
FROM pg_statio_user_tables;

# Another of my favourite queries is to show a top-like view of current queries


docker exec -it stackdevelop_dbhost_1 psql -U postgres -c "SELECT count(*) as cnt,
user,query FROM pg_stat_activity GROUP BY user,query ORDER BY cnt DESC;"

# This is useful for analysing queries for non idle connections that have been
running since a long time that may require some tuning.
SELECT datname,
pid,
usename,
client_addr,
client_port,
xact_start,
backend_start,
query_start,
state,
query
FROM pg_stat_activity
WHERE state != 'idle'
ORDER BY query_start ASC

# Long running queries


SELECT
pid,
now() - pg_stat_activity.query_start AS duration,
query,
state
FROM pg_stat_activity where now() - query_start > interval '5 minute'
AND state != 'idle'

#Get Running Queries (And Lock statuses) in PostgreSQL

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