Re: [INTERFACES] how to monitor dead connections to postgresql database - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Jim C. Nasby
Subject Re: [INTERFACES] how to monitor dead connections to postgresql database
Date
Msg-id 20051004173628.GQ40138@pervasive.com
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List pgsql-general
On Tue, Oct 04, 2005 at 06:21:51AM -0700, jing han wrote:
> Hello,
>
> After 6 days busy running, one of my process dead of
> cannot connect to database, and the log message shows
> that exceeding max_connections. The max_connections =
> 30.
>
> By running watch -d "ps ax |grep postgres" I only find
> 6 connections to database, there must be dead
> connections laying around and I cannot see them.
>
> Can you tell me how to monitor dead connections to
> postgres database?

This isn't the list for this type of question; moving to -general.

You can query from pg_stat_activity:

SELECT * FROM pg_stat_activity;
or
SELECT count(*) FROM pg_stat_activity;
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