Re: Postgres Load Profile - Mailing list pgsql-admin

On Mon, Nov 3, 2025 at 5: 56 PM Sam Stearns <sam. stearns@ dat. com> wrote: Howdy, Does Postgres have any tables you can query to find out information such as: Logical reads Block changes Physical reads Physical writes Read IO requests Write

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On Mon, Nov 3, 2025 at 5:56 PM Sam Stearns <sam.stearns@dat.com> wrote:

Howdy,

Does Postgres have any tables you can query to find out information such as:

• Logical reads
• Block changes
• Physical reads
• Physical writes
• Read IO requests
• Write IO requests
• Read IO (MB)
• Write IO (MB)

https://www.postgresql.org/docs/17/monitoring-stats.html

 

• User calls
• Parses (SQL)
• Hard parses (SQL)
• Executes (SQL)

Probably not unless you want to set log_statement=all and then parse log_directory/log_filename.

 

• Transactions per second

Does TPS make any sense beyond when DBMS is running a "strict monoculture" application like OLTP with zero report generation?  Because a five hour SELECT that joins 42 tables in addition to 37 hairy subqueries is just as much a transaction as is a 5 microsecond SELECT of one customer's records using a hash index, and an equally fast INSERT of three records.

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