Re: retrieve statement from catalogs

On Tuesday 28 October 2003 14:33, Jaime Casanova wrote:
> Hi everybody, can anyone tell me if there's a way to retrieve the select
> instruction executed from the catalogs, or maybe via some structure in a
> trigger?
>
> The reason is that i have some selects constructed on-the-fly (just part of
> it) and i want to save that in a table in order to know what are the most
> used for optimizing them.
>
> Another reason for doing that is that i don't know all the selects in the
> program nor the page and this is an easier solution than examine all the
> code.

Use pg_ctl -l logfile option to start postmaster. It will log the things. And
set log_statement=true in postgresql.conf.

So there will be all the sql statements logged in.

HTH

Shridhar