Re: pg_stats how-to?

I am sorry about this Jim, please understand that I am a newbie and am
trying to solve long vacuum time problems and get a handle on speeding up
queries/reports. I was pointed to pg_stats and that's where I am at now. I
have added this into my conf file:
stats_start_collector TRUE stats_reset_on_server_start FALSE
stats_command_string TRUE
However, these being production servers, I have not enabled these:
stats_row_level stats_block_level
Yes, I have re-started the server(s). It seems like I query tables to get
the info. If so, are there any queries written that I can use?

Thanks for following up on this with me.

Yudhvir

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On 5/14/07, Jim C. Nasby <decibel(at)decibel(dot)org> wrote:
>
> On Mon, May 14, 2007 at 11:09:21AM -0700, Y Sidhu wrote:
> > The stats_block_level and stats_row_level are NOT enabled. The question
> is
> > how to use pg_stats. Do I access/see them via the ANALYZE command? or
> using
> > SQL. I cannot find any document which will get me started on this.
>
> Ok, we're both confused I think... I thought you were talking about the
> pg_stat* views, which depend on the statistics collector (that's what
> the stats_* parameters control).
>
> That actually has nothing at all to do with pg_stats or pg_statistics.
> Those deal with statistics about the data in the database, and not about
> statistics from the engine (which is what the pg_stat* views do...).
>
> If you want to know about pg_stats, take a look at
> http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.2/interactive/view-pg-stats.html ...
> but normally you shouldn't need to worry yourself about that. Are you
> trying to debug something?
>
> Information about the backend statistics can be found at
> http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.2/interactive/monitoring.html
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