Useful PostgreSQL Queries and Commands

postgres_queries_and_commands.sql

-- show running queries (pre 9.2)
SELECT procpid, age(query_start, clock_timestamp()), usename, current_query 
FROM pg_stat_activity 
WHERE current_query != '<IDLE>' AND current_query NOT ILIKE '%pg_stat_activity%' 
ORDER BY query_start desc;

-- show running queries (9.2)
SELECT pid, age(query_start, clock_timestamp()), usename, query 
FROM pg_stat_activity 
WHERE query != '<IDLE>' AND query NOT ILIKE '%pg_stat_activity%' 
ORDER BY query_start desc;

-- kill running query
SELECT pg_cancel_backend(procpid);

-- kill idle query
SELECT pg_terminate_backend(procpid);

-- vacuum command
VACUUM (VERBOSE, ANALYZE);

-- all database users
select * from pg_stat_activity where current_query not like '<%';

-- all databases and their sizes
select * from pg_user;

-- all tables and their size, with/without indexes
select datname, pg_size_pretty(pg_database_size(datname))
from pg_database
order by pg_database_size(datname) desc;

-- cache hit rates (should not be less than 0.99)
SELECT sum(heap_blks_read) as heap_read, sum(heap_blks_hit)  as heap_hit, (sum(heap_blks_hit) - sum(heap_blks_read)) / sum(heap_blks_hit) as ratio
FROM pg_statio_user_tables;

-- table index usage rates (should not be less than 0.99)
SELECT relname, 100 * idx_scan / (seq_scan + idx_scan) percent_of_times_index_used, n_live_tup rows_in_table
FROM pg_stat_user_tables 
ORDER BY n_live_tup DESC;

-- how many indexes are in cache
SELECT sum(idx_blks_read) as idx_read, sum(idx_blks_hit)  as idx_hit, (sum(idx_blks_hit) - sum(idx_blks_read)) / sum(idx_blks_hit) as ratio
FROM pg_statio_user_indexes;

-- Dump database on remote host to file
$ pg_dump -U username -h hostname databasename > dump.sql

-- Import dump into existing database
$ psql -d newdb -f dump.sql


-- Check the size (as in disk space) of all databases:

SELECT d.datname AS Name, pg_catalog.pg_get_userbyid(d.datdba) AS Owner,
  CASE WHEN pg_catalog.has_database_privilege(d.datname, 'CONNECT')
    THEN pg_catalog.pg_size_pretty(pg_catalog.pg_database_size(d.datname)) 
    ELSE 'No Access' 
  END AS SIZE 
FROM pg_catalog.pg_database d 
ORDER BY 
  CASE WHEN pg_catalog.has_database_privilege(d.datname, 'CONNECT') 
    THEN pg_catalog.pg_database_size(d.datname)
    ELSE NULL 
  END;
Check the size (as in disk space) of each table:

SELECT nspname || '.' || relname AS "relation",
   pg_size_pretty(pg_total_relation_size(C.oid)) AS "total_size"
 FROM pg_class C
 LEFT JOIN pg_namespace N ON (N.oid = C.relnamespace)
 WHERE nspname NOT IN ('pg_catalog', 'information_schema')
   AND C.relkind <> 'i'
   AND nspname !~ '^pg_toast'
 ORDER BY pg_total_relation_size(C.oid) DESC;
 
 
 -- find wait lock holder
 with t_wait as 
(select a.locktype,a.database,a.relation,a.page,a.tuple,a.classid,a.objid,a.objsubid,a.pid,a.virtualtransaction,a.virtualxid,a,transactionid,b.query,b.xact_start,b.query_start,b.usename,b.datname from pg_locks a,pg_stat_activity b where a.pid=b.pid and not a.granted),
t_run as 
(select a.mode,a.locktype,a.database,a.relation,a.page,a.tuple,a.classid,a.objid,a.objsubid,a.pid,a.virtualtransaction,a.virtualxid,a,transactionid,b.query,b.xact_start,b.query_start,b.usename,b.datname from pg_locks a,pg_stat_activity b where a.pid=b.pid and a.granted) 
select r.locktype,r.mode,r.usename r_user,r.datname r_db,r.relation::regclass,r.pid r_pid,r.xact_start r_xact_start,r.query_start r_query_start,r.query r_query,
w.usename w_user,w.datname w_db,w.pid w_pid,w.xact_start w_xact_start,w.query_start w_query_start,w.query w_query  
from t_wait w,t_run r where
  r.locktype is not distinct from w.locktype and
  r.database is not distinct from w.database and
  r.relation is not distinct from w.relation and
  r.page is not distinct from w.page and
  r.tuple is not distinct from w.tuple and
  r.classid is not distinct from w.classid and
  r.objid is not distinct from w.objid and
  r.objsubid is not distinct from w.objsubid
  order by r.xact_start;
  
-- 
ALTER TABLE measurement DETACH PARTITION measurement_y2006m02;
DROP TABLE measurement_y2006m02;