counting transactions

Hi

I have a table and an sql file which has a bunch of inserts

I need to count the transactions that happen

Since the autocommit is ON , aside other internals, I should have roughly the same number of transactions as inserts

I was looking at "xact_commit" column from the "pg_stat_database"

select * from pg_stat_database where datname='alonedb';
insert into person(person_id,first_name, middle_name,last_name, title, prefix, suffix) values (1,'SdnVwhNC', 'cjisHsjK', 'iuAVZbIU', 'dGm', 'lsu', 'yZn');
insert into person(person_id,first_name, middle_name,last_name, title, prefix, suffix) values (2,'qXxtnlEi', 'cPtDBHFR', 'CvNWKYbg', 'eDt', 'gpY', 'wtP');
insert into person(person_id,first_name, middle_name,last_name, title, prefix, suffix) values (3,'XJPRnHhR', 'ZLZQXbyk', 'dylerhdb', 'aLp', 'yAD', 'VCP');
insert into person(person_id,first_name, middle_name,last_name, title, prefix, suffix) values (4,'AnhPoyFI', 'VzMBtdAk', 'KortOCdo', 'ZSH', 'rME', 'yOH');
insert into person(person_id,first_name, middle_name,last_name, title, prefix, suffix) values (5,'iKSJEcan', 'GtuSFsfQ', 'alHxFYXr', 'DZN', 'RVA', 'zCP');
insert into person(person_id,first_name, middle_name,last_name, title, prefix, suffix) values (6,'GiwxKOxF', 'kESBUusk', 'soKzMiDP', 'FYq', 'aHp', 'PHU');
insert into person(person_id,first_name, middle_name,last_name, title, prefix, suffix) values (7,'piwfYySd', 'WrmjKokB', 'ryndcZjb', 'mgB', 'oXg', 'caZ');
insert into person(person_id,first_name, middle_name,last_name, title, prefix, suffix) values (8,'yfBzBGLu', 'NlASbtWF', 'NxxjtVVg', 'JuD', 'fNg', 'KUP');
insert into person(person_id,first_name, middle_name,last_name, title, prefix, suffix) values (9,'wMnntvRV', 'bOrsXviK', 'wETGZIpM', 'Rfd', 'KiZ', 'NDV');
insert into person(person_id,first_name, middle_name,last_name, title, prefix, suffix) values (10,'ejYyXsnT', 'CbXKywbR', 'ACJKilmi', 'uuc', 'klR', 'kcQ');
select * from pg_stat_database where datname='alonedb';

alonedb=# select * from pg_stat_database where datname='alonedb';
datid | datname | numbackends | xact_commit | xact_rollback | blks_read | blks_hit | tup_returned | tup_fetched | tup_inserted | tup_updated | tup_deleted | conflicts | temp_files | temp_bytes | deadlocks | blk_r
ead_time | blk_write_time | stats_reset
-------+---------+-------------+-------------+---------------+-----------+----------+--------------+-------------+--------------+-------------+-------------+-----------+------------+------------+-----------+------
---------+----------------+-------------------------------
16386 | alonedb | 1 | 101205 | 17 | 3324 | 955026 | 966533 | 249624 | 100138 | 34 | 50000 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
0 | 0 | 2015-08-28 16:46:45.332615-05

and after

alonedb=# select * from pg_stat_database where datname='alonedb';
datid | datname | numbackends | xact_commit | xact_rollback | blks_read | blks_hit | tup_returned | tup_fetched | tup_inserted | tup_updated | tup_deleted | conflicts | temp_files | temp_bytes | deadlocks | blk_r
ead_time | blk_write_time | stats_reset
-------+---------+-------------+-------------+---------------+-----------+----------+--------------+-------------+--------------+-------------+-------------+-----------+------------+------------+-----------+------
---------+----------------+-------------------------------
16386 | alonedb | 1 | 101205 | 17 | 3324 | 955026 | 966533 | 249624 | 100138 | 34 | 50000 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
0 | 0 | 2015-08-28 16:46:45.332615-05
(1 row)

But I did another variant

1 - select * from pg_stat_database where datname='alonedb';
datid | datname | numbackends | xact_commit | xact_rollback | blks_read | blks_hit | tup_returned | tup_fetched | tup_inserted | tup_updated | tup_deleted | conflicts | temp_files | temp_bytes | deadlocks | blk_r
ead_time | blk_write_time | stats_reset
-------+---------+-------------+-------------+---------------+-----------+----------+--------------+-------------+--------------+-------------+-------------+-----------+------------+------------+-----------+------
---------+----------------+-------------------------------
16386 | alonedb | 1 | 101296 | 27 | 3509 | 983714 | 1009484 | 264308 | 100168 | 38 | 50000 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
0 | 0 | 2015-08-28 16:46:45.332615-05

2 - disconnect
3 - reconnect
4 - run the inserts
5 - disconnect
6 - reconnect

7 - select * from pg_stat_database where datname='alonedb';
datid | datname | numbackends | xact_commit | xact_rollback | blks_read | blks_hit | tup_returned | tup_fetched | tup_inserted | tup_updated | tup_deleted | conflicts | temp_files | temp_bytes | deadlocks | blk_r
ead_time | blk_write_time | stats_reset
-------+---------+-------------+-------------+---------------+-----------+----------+--------------+-------------+--------------+-------------+-------------+-----------+------------+------------+-----------+------
---------+----------------+-------------------------------
16386 | alonedb | 1 | 101309 | 27 | 3512 | 985576 | 1010638 | 265262 | 100178 | 38 | 50000 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
0 | 0 | 2015-08-28 16:46:45.332615-05

I was expecting both situations to yield similar results

So in my mind several questions
1 - why the difference ?
2 - is there any way to really count the transactions ? In Ingres for example I can look in logdump output or in imadb

Thanks
-- Armand