lesovsky

SELECT 
        now()-pg_postmaster_start_time()    "Uptime", now()-stats_reset     "Since stats reset",
        round(100.0*checkpoints_req/total_checkpoints,1)                    "Forced checkpoint ratio (%)",
        round(np.min_since_reset/total_checkpoints,2)                       "Minutes between checkpoints",
        round(checkpoint_write_time::numeric/(total_checkpoints*1000),2)    "Average write time per checkpoint (s)",
        round(checkpoint_sync_time::numeric/(total_checkpoints*1000),2)     "Average sync time per checkpoint (s)",
        round(total_buffers/np.mp,1)                                        "Total MB written",
        round(buffers_checkpoint/(np.mp*total_checkpoints),2)               "MB per checkpoint",
        round(buffers_checkpoint/(np.mp*np.min_since_reset*60),2)           "Checkpoint MBps",
        round(buffers_clean/(np.mp*np.min_since_reset*60),2)                "Bgwriter MBps",

benschwarz

Apps

• Postico client for mac
• pgcli - Postgres CLI with autocompletion and syntax highlighting
• pghero - Server and query performance dashboard

Tools

• PEV - Query planning / Explain analyze visualisation
• PostgreSQL's explain analyze made readable

Kartones

PSQL

Magic words:

psql -U postgres

Some interesting flags (to see all, use -h or --help depending on your psql version):

• -E: will describe the underlaying queries of the \ commands (cool for learning!)
• -l: psql will list all databases and then exit (useful if the user you connect with doesn't has a default database, like at AWS RDS)

jberkus

WITH table_scans as (
    SELECT relid,
        tables.idx_scan + tables.seq_scan as all_scans,
        ( tables.n_tup_ins + tables.n_tup_upd + tables.n_tup_del ) as writes,
                pg_relation_size(relid) as table_size
        FROM pg_stat_user_tables as tables
),
all_writes as (
    SELECT sum(writes) as total_writes
    FROM table_scans

jberkus

WITH btree_index_atts AS (
    SELECT nspname, relname, reltuples, relpages, indrelid, relam,
        regexp_split_to_table(indkey::text, ' ')::smallint AS attnum,
        indexrelid as index_oid
    FROM pg_index
    JOIN pg_class ON pg_class.oid=pg_index.indexrelid
    JOIN pg_namespace ON pg_namespace.oid = pg_class.relnamespace
    JOIN pg_am ON pg_class.relam = pg_am.oid
    WHERE pg_am.amname = 'btree'
    ),

selenamarie

Ideal Postgres environment

Documentation

• Documented replication topology
• Documented network topology
• Documented interface topology - including users, passwords, connection estimates, load balancers, connection proxies
• Documented procedure, schedule for failover and testing
• Documented procedure, schedule for disaster recovery and testing