Re: [ADMIN] Postgres 9.1 statistics in pg_stat_database

2013-02-07 Thread Steve Crawford

On 02/07/2013 11:05 AM, Tom Lane wrote:

=?utf-8?q?Milos_Gajdos?= gy2...@centrum.cz writes:

What this shows is that xact_commit increases by 3 after just one row insert. 
tup_inserted does seem to report correct value. After simple SELECT, 
xact_commit increases by 2 - kind of strange as SELECT shouldn't really be 
increasing xact_commit ?

Yes, a SELECT does count as an xact_commit...

Additionally (correct me if I'm wrong, Tom), background activity like 
autovacuum will generate countable transactions. I can see transactions 
increment by a dozen or more on a completely idle database if I just 
wait a minute or two but the number of those transactions, while visible 
on an idle system, is lost in the noise on a busy database.


Other things that generate transactions include connecting to the 
database (one, it appears) but \d in psql appears to generate a minimum 
of four.


Cheers,
Steve



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Re: [ADMIN] Postgres 9.1 statistics in pg_stat_database

2013-02-07 Thread Tom Lane
Steve Crawford scrawf...@pinpointresearch.com writes:
 Additionally (correct me if I'm wrong, Tom), background activity like 
 autovacuum will generate countable transactions.

Yes, absolutely.

regards, tom lane


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