October 2010
Intermediate to advanced
468 pages
11h 35m
English
There are two types of information you can monitor from the database. The main statistics are stored into counters. These counters start at 0 when you create a new database cluster, increasing with all activity related to that statistic. Counters in this category include pg_stat_database, pg_stat_bgwriter, and all of the other views whose names start with pg_stat.
The exact way that you reset these counters back to 0 again varies quite a bit based on your PostgreSQL version:
pg_stat_reset() resets all statistics. Enabling stats_reset_on_server_start in the postgresql.conf file will reset everything each time the server is started.pg_stat_reset() resets just block and row level statistics. Enabling ...Read now
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