Thread: Two proposals of DBA helper functions

Two proposals of DBA helper functions

From
Jean-Paul Argudo
Date:
Hi all,

I would like to submit two ideas:

1/
In the daily tasks I have as (also) a standard DBA, I found usefull to
view locks in a human point of view. I think the "~ '^pg_'" part of the
queries may be not so clean... Any ideas welcome :)

2/
Also, I like having a cache hit/miss ratio. This is why I add a function
"pg_stat_get_db_hit_miss_ratio(database oid)" to pg_stat_database, in a
"bis" view.

Since I dont want to flood the mailing list with a possible useless
thing, I put my sql/plpgsql code here:

http://priam.dalibo.net/~jpa/propositions/

Please take a look at it and tell me if this could be usefull or not..

Thanks a lot,

-- 
Jean-Paul Argudo
www.postgresqlfr.org
www.dalibo.com


Re: Two proposals of DBA helper functions

From
"Jim C. Nasby"
Date:
On Mon, Sep 25, 2006 at 09:29:28AM +0200, Jean-Paul Argudo wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I would like to submit two ideas:
> 
> 1/
> In the daily tasks I have as (also) a standard DBA, I found usefull to
> view locks in a human point of view. I think the "~ '^pg_'" part of the
> queries may be not so clean... Any ideas welcome :)
Technically, you need to look and see what schema something is in. Take
a look at how the newsysviews project on pgFoundry does it.

> 2/
> Also, I like having a cache hit/miss ratio. This is why I add a function
> "pg_stat_get_db_hit_miss_ratio(database oid)" to pg_stat_database, in a
> "bis" view.
> 
> Since I dont want to flood the mailing list with a possible useless
> thing, I put my sql/plpgsql code here:
> 
> http://priam.dalibo.net/~jpa/propositions/
> 
> Please take a look at it and tell me if this could be usefull or not..

The general consensus seems to be that the things in pg_catalog should
provide a minimalist view. The newsysviews project was created in the
hope that we could get a more human-friendly version of that data put
into core, but it's been neglected for a while now (for one thing, there
was desire to make it look more like information_schema).
-- 
Jim Nasby                                            jim@nasby.net
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