Re: monitoring sql queries

What is a GUC and how do I use it?

On 11/17/2011 9:46 AM, Tomas Vondra wrote:
> On 17 Listopad 2011, 17:32, hubert depesz lubaczewski wrote:
>> On Thu, Nov 17, 2011 at 09:29:11AM -0700, J.V. wrote:
>>> I am in need of a tool or method to see each/every SQL query that
>>> hits the PostgreSQL database. By query I mean the query in SQL
>>> syntax with all the parameters passed.
>>>
>>> What I want to do is:
>>> 1) see the query
>>> 2) Determine how long the query takes to execute
>>> 3) Possibly log both of the above to a log file
>>>
>>> Is there any tool internal to PostgreSQL that would allow me to do this?
>>>
>>> I cannot monitor it from the code that is actually connecting&
>>> sending the query.
>>>
>>> any help or pointers would be greatly appreciated.
>> just enable logging of queries.
> As depesz mentioned, there's a log_min_duration GUC, that allows you to
> log queries that exceed some time interval. If you want to log all
> queries, you may set this to 0 but it may easily fill your log with
> garbage.
>
> There are two contrib modules that might help you - pg_stat_statements and
> auto_explain. The former one is probably more interesting in this case.
>
> Tomas
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