Re: Problems monitoring DB activity - Mailing list pgsql-admin

From Goulet, Dick
Subject Re: Problems monitoring DB activity
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Msg-id 4001DEAF7DF9BD498B58B45051FBEA6501B9D845@25exch1.vicorpower.vicr.com
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In response to Problems monitoring DB activity  (Doug Y <dylists@ptd.net>)
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Sounds like the Oracle parameter TIMED_STATISTICS.  Costs you soo little
in performance, but saves you a pile in troubleshooting.  Many DBA's
still set it to false to "save the expense".  Nice to know the same
exists here.


Dick Goulet
Senior Oracle DBA
Oracle Certified 8i DBA
-----Original Message-----
From: Michael Fuhr [mailto:mike@fuhr.org]
Sent: Friday, October 08, 2004 11:15 AM
To: Doug Y
Cc: pgsql-admin@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: [ADMIN] Problems monitoring DB activity

On Fri, Oct 08, 2004 at 10:46:56AM -0400, Doug Y wrote:
> Michael Fuhr wrote:
> >
> >Does postgresql.conf have stats_command_string = true?
> >
> Thanks, setting that did the trick....  whats the performance hit for
> having it enabled?

I haven't done any tests to determine the performance penalty; maybe one
of the developers or somebody who's done some benchmarks can comment.

The "Annotated postgresql.conf and Global User Configuration (GUC)
Guide"[1] says that "Enabling statistics collection costs a small amount
of time per query, but is invaluable for debugging and performance
tuning."

[1]
http://www.varlena.com/varlena/GeneralBits/Tidbits/annotated_conf_e.html

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Michael Fuhr
http://www.fuhr.org/~mfuhr/

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