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    Useful PostgreSQL Queries and Commands
  
        
  
    
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  | -- show running queries (pre 9.2) | |
| SELECT procpid, age(query_start, clock_timestamp()), usename, current_query | |
| FROM pg_stat_activity | |
| WHERE current_query != '<IDLE>' AND current_query NOT ILIKE '%pg_stat_activity%' | |
| ORDER BY query_start desc; | |
| -- show running queries (9.2) | |
| SELECT pid, age(query_start, clock_timestamp()), usename, query | |
| FROM pg_stat_activity | |
| WHERE query != '<IDLE>' AND query NOT ILIKE '%pg_stat_activity%' | |
| ORDER BY query_start desc; | |
| -- kill running query | |
| SELECT pg_cancel_backend(procpid); | |
| -- kill idle query | |
| SELECT pg_terminate_backend(procpid); | |
| -- vacuum command | |
| VACUUM (VERBOSE, ANALYZE); | |
| -- all database users | |
| select * from pg_stat_activity where current_query not like '<%'; | |
| -- all databases and their sizes | |
| select * from pg_user; | |
| -- all tables and their size, with/without indexes | |
| select datname, pg_size_pretty(pg_database_size(datname)) | |
| from pg_database | |
| order by pg_database_size(datname) desc; | |
| -- cache hit rates (should not be less than 0.99) | |
| SELECT sum(heap_blks_read) as heap_read, sum(heap_blks_hit) as heap_hit, (sum(heap_blks_hit) - sum(heap_blks_read)) / sum(heap_blks_hit) as ratio | |
| FROM pg_statio_user_tables; | |
| -- table index usage rates (should not be less than 0.99) | |
| SELECT relname, 100 * idx_scan / (seq_scan + idx_scan) percent_of_times_index_used, n_live_tup rows_in_table | |
| FROM pg_stat_user_tables | |
| ORDER BY n_live_tup DESC; | |
| -- how many indexes are in cache | |
| SELECT sum(idx_blks_read) as idx_read, sum(idx_blks_hit) as idx_hit, (sum(idx_blks_hit) - sum(idx_blks_read)) / sum(idx_blks_hit) as ratio | |
| FROM pg_statio_user_indexes; | |
| -- Dump database on remote host to file | |
| $ pg_dump -U username -h hostname databasename > dump.sql | |
| -- Import dump into existing database | |
| $ psql -d newdb -f dump.sql | |
| -- top unused indexes | |
| $ SELECT | |
| schemaname || '.' || relname AS table, | |
| indexrelname AS index, | |
| pg_size_pretty(pg_relation_size(i.indexrelid)) AS index_size, | |
| idx_scan as index_scans | |
| FROM pg_stat_user_indexes ui | |
| JOIN pg_index i ON ui.indexrelid = i.indexrelid | |
| WHERE NOT indisunique AND idx_scan < 50 AND pg_relation_size(relid) > 5 * 8192 | |
| ORDER BY pg_relation_size(i.indexrelid) / nullif(idx_scan, 0) DESC NULLS FIRST, | |
| pg_relation_size(i.indexrelid) DESC; | |
| -- completely unused indexes | |
| SELECT relid::regclass as table, indexrelid::regclass as index | |
| , pg_size_pretty(pg_relation_size(indexrelid)) | |
| FROM pg_stat_user_indexes | |
| JOIN pg_index | |
| USING (indexrelid) | |
| WHERE idx_scan = 0 | |
| AND indisunique IS FALSE order by pg_relation_size(indexrelid) | |
| -- postgres db size at rest | |
| select pg_size_pretty(pg_database_size('zego')); | |
| -- postgres table size | |
| select pg_size_pretty(pg_relation_size('users')); | |
| -- postgres index size | |
| select pg_size_pretty(pg_relation_size('users_pkey')); | |
| -- postgres table size including indexes | |
| select pg_size_pretty(pg_total_relation_size('users')); | 
  
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