Re: postgres query log analysis?

George Pavlov wrote:
> What do you all use for query log analysis for Postgres. I feel/hope
> like there must be something that I am missing.
>
> I have tried PQA (http://pqa.projects.postgresql.org/) and it is very
> problematic, at least with the kind of application we have. Some of
> the problems: * not aware of prepared statements
> (http://pgfoundry.org/forum/forum.php?thread_id=948&forum_id=24);
> * giving faulty stats in several situations (possibly related to
> prepared statements, but maybe some others);
> * very slow on anything but "play" logs;
> * seems to not be maintained lately (since 8.0?).
>
> Pglog-analyze (http://opensource.pearshealthcyber.cz/) is an
> admirable attempt, but it is very problematic too:
> * incredibly memory-intensive -- I can at best process a few hours
> of my production logs even though I have jacked up my PHP memory
> limit to 2.5GB
> * gives out stats that seem way off on several accounts (subsecond
> queries sometimes show as taking over a minute);
> * seems to have similar to PQA's (if not worse) issues with
> prepared statements.
>
> Is there any other option? When you enable query logging in your
> PGSQL logs what do you do with the output?
>
> Thanks!
>

Look into pgfouine on pgFoundry. http://pgfoundry.org/projects/pgfouine/

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