Re: top for postgresql (ptop?)

From: Satoshi Nagayasu <nagayasus(at)nttdata(dot)co(dot)jp>
To: Mark Wong <markwkm(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: top for postgresql (ptop?)
Date: 2007-09-26 03:39:42
Message-ID: 46F9D47E.1070002@nttdata.co.jp
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Mark,

Very interesting. I'm looking for such tool.

Unfortunately, I can't compile it on my Solaris right now,
but I hope it will be shipped with PostgreSQL distribution.

Mark Wong wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> I was playing with converting unixtop (the version of top used in
> FreeBSD) to only show PostgreSQL processes pulled from the
> pg_stat_activity table. I have a version that kind of works here:
>
> http://pgfoundry.org/frs/download.php/1468/ptop-3.6.1-pre6.tar.gz
>
> I've tried it on FreeBSD and Linux, not sure about other platforms
> though. So it looks a lot like top and can currently do a few simple
> things like display the current_query from pg_stat_activity for a
> given process, show the locks held by a process and on which tables,
> and show the query plan for the current query. It is a ways from
> polished (not really documented, etc.) but I wanted to see what people
> thought of a text/curses sort of monitoring tool like this. Maybe
> something to distribute with PostgreSQL? :)
>
> Forgive me if I didn't try out pgtop (the CPAN module.)
>
> Regards,
> Mark
>
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