Re: pg_stat_activity doubts - Mailing list pgsql-admin

On 3/22/18 10:01 AM, Debraj Manna wrote:

Thanks Ray .

Any thoughts on my query #3?

I would do an strace on the pid to see what is underneath.  Might give a clue where to look in the code. 

On Thu 22 Mar, 2018, 7:13 PM Ray Stell, <stellr@vt.edu> wrote:

On 3/22/18 8:45 AM, Debraj Manna wrote:

Hi

Can someone resolve my below doubts about pg_stat_activity :-

1. Can someone let me know how pg_stat_activity is populated? If I am executing a query like `Select * from pg_stat_activity` does it produce the details from some snapshot maintained by postgres or it checks the current connections open in postgres to provide the details?
2. Can some let me know what does the state IDLE denotes in the row of pg_stat_activity? Is it like it checks all the open connections to postgres and if the connection is not executing any query then IDLE denotes the last query executed by the connection?
3. In the output of select * from pg_stat_activity I am seeing rows with state IDLE and the query_start_date more than 2 days old? What does this signify ? Should I be worried about this?
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