Re: fsutil ideas

From: Csaba Nagy <nagy(at)ecircle-ag(dot)com>
To: Rod Taylor <pg(at)rbt(dot)ca>
Cc: postgres hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: fsutil ideas
Date: 2006-02-24 18:20:30
Message-ID: 1140805230.6846.211.camel@coppola.muc.ecircle.de
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On Fri, 2006-02-24 at 19:12, Rod Taylor wrote:
> On Fri, 2006-02-24 at 12:48 -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> > Rod Taylor <pg(at)rbt(dot)ca> writes:
> > > I watch for table bloat but I haven't figured out a nice way of tracking
> > > down the postgresql process with the oldest transaction running short of
> > > patching PostgreSQL to report the XID for a connection in
> > > pg_stat_activity.

But I'm afraid that a long running transaction with many short queries
will not even show up in pg_stat_activity. So that's not a completely
reliable way of catching long running transactions... but it's true that
most of the time a long running query is the problem, and that is
catchable.

Cheers,
Csaba.

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