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-- All active connections on current database | |
SELECT * FROM pg_stat_activity; | |
-- Get All roles in the database | |
SELECT rolname FROM pg_roles; | |
-- show running queries (pre 9.2) | |
SELECT procpid, age(clock_timestamp(), query_start), 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(clock_timestamp(), query_start), 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 | |
-- Show Tables | |
SELECT | |
* | |
FROM | |
pg_catalog.pg_tables | |
WHERE | |
schemaname != 'pg_catalog' | |
AND schemaname != 'information_schema'; | |
-- Describe Table | |
SELECT | |
COLUMN_NAME | |
FROM | |
information_schema.COLUMNS | |
WHERE | |
TABLE_NAME = 'city'; | |
-- Find Current Sequence value | |
SELECT currval(pg_get_serial_sequence('table_name','column_name')); | |
-- List sequences | |
SELECT | |
c.relname sequence_name | |
FROM | |
pg_class | |
WHERE | |
relkind = 'S'; | |
-- List extensions installed | |
\dx | |
SELECT * FROM pg_extension; |
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