Re: pg_stat_activity.query empty

From: "David G(dot) Johnston" <david(dot)g(dot)johnston(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Robert Lichtenberger <r(dot)lichtenberger(at)synedra(dot)com>
Cc: "pgsql-generallists(dot)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-general(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: pg_stat_activity.query empty
Date: 2022-04-26 13:59:14
Message-ID: CAKFQuwbGGMETbFKV7BwW95Hr0OK2HeWpdTA6m=KhpeEbugfSUg@mail.gmail.com
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On Tue, Apr 26, 2022 at 6:55 AM Robert Lichtenberger <
r(dot)lichtenberger(at)synedra(dot)com> wrote:

> When executing "SELECT * FROM pg_stat_activity" I get lots of rows that
> have an empty "query" column.
>
> According to [1] this column should contain the "Text of this backend's
> most recent query", either a query that is currently running or the last
> query that was executed.
>
> So how comes that a lot of the rows in pg_stat_activity have an empty
> "query"?
>
>
>
> https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/monitoring-stats.html#MONITORING-PG-STAT-ACTIVITY-VIEW
>
>
They've never executed a query. Probably due to connection pooling opening
connections for the pool but never needing to hand them out.

David J.

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