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From: Jim C. Nasby <jnasby@pervasive.com>
To: Robin Ericsson <lobbin@gmail.com>
Cc: Dan Gorman <dgorman@hi5.com>
Cc: pgsql-performance@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Selects query stats?
Date: Wed, 24 May 2006 16:33:53 -0500
Message-ID: <20060524213352.GN59464@pervasive.com> (raw)
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On Wed, May 24, 2006 at 12:27:41PM +0200, Robin Ericsson wrote:
> On 5/23/06, Dan Gorman <dgorman@hi5.com> wrote:
> >
> >In any other DB (oracle, mysql) I know how many queries (selects) per 
> >second
> >the database is executing. How do I get this
> >number out of postgres?
> 
> Mysql does AFAIR only count the number of queries and then uses the
> "seconds since startup" to estimate the number of queries per second.
> If your server is hammered with queries 1 hour a day it's not giving
> you a fair result.

Somehow that doesn't surprise me...

In any case, if we at least provide a raw counter, it's not that hard to
turn that into selects per second over some period of time.
-- 
Jim C. Nasby, Sr. Engineering Consultant      jnasby@pervasive.com
Pervasive Software      http://pervasive.com    work: 512-231-6117
vcard: http://jim.nasby.net/pervasive.vcf       cell: 512-569-9461



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