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From: Ron Johnson <[email protected]>
To: Pgsql-admin <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: Postgres Load Profile
Date: Mon, 3 Nov 2025 21:49:01 -0500
Message-ID: <CANzqJaBpi-VMu9xOj-qksKoLLoggZNTi13ZUu5eea8M5Rc6eow@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
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On Mon, Nov 3, 2025 at 5:56 PM Sam Stearns <[email protected]> wrote:

> Howdy,
>
> Does Postgres have any tables you can query to find out information such
> as:
>
>    - Logical reads
>    - Block changes
>    - Physical reads
>    - Physical writes
>    - Read IO requests
>    - Write IO requests
>    - Read IO (MB)
>    - Write IO (MB)
>
>
https://www.postgresql.org/docs/17/monitoring-stats.html


>
>    - User calls
>    - Parses (SQL)
>    - Hard parses (SQL)
>    - Executes (SQL)
>
> Probably not unless you want to set log_statement=all and then
parse log_directory/log_filename.


>
>    - Transactions per second
>
> Does TPS make any sense beyond when DBMS is running a "strict monoculture"
application like OLTP with *zero* report generation?  Because a five hour
SELECT that joins 42 tables in addition to 37 hairy subqueries is just as
much a transaction as is a 5 microsecond SELECT of one customer's records
using a hash index, and an equally fast INSERT of three records.

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