mFabrik - mobile sites, apps, HTML5 and CMS software development » postgresql http://blog.mfabrik.com Freedom delivered. Wed, 03 Aug 2011 09:47:41 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Profiling PostgreSQL database http://blog.mfabrik.com/2010/01/02/profiling-postgresql-database/ http://blog.mfabrik.com/2010/01/02/profiling-postgresql-database/#comments Fri, 01 Jan 2010 23:35:05 +0000 Mikko Ohtamaa http://blog.twinapex.fi/?p=388 This blog post will have some short notes about monitoring and profiling PostgreSQL databases.

pgtop

pgtop provides UNIX top command like user interface for PostgreSQL. pgtop command is available as Perl CPAN module.

How to install Perl CPAN modules as non-root user on Ubuntu (note: when it prompts to run sudo, answer no).

To install pgtop install following CPAN modules first: Term::ANSIColor, Term::ReadKey, DBD::Pg

perl -MCPAN -Mlocal::lib -e 'CPAN::install(DBD::Pg)'
perl -MCPAN -Mlocal::lib -e 'CPAN::install(Term::ReadKey)'
perl -MCPAN -Mlocal::lib -e 'CPAN::install(Term::ANSIColor)'

pgtop install instructions

pgtop manul

Running pgtop:

perl pgtop -d databasename -u yourdbuser -p yourdbuserpassword

pgfouine

pgfouine is a log analyzer for PostgreSQL.

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