Re: Enable pg_stat_statements

On 06/02/14 15:25, bricklen wrote:
>
> On Thu, Feb 6, 2014 at 6:16 AM, Stelian Iancu <stelian(at)iancu(dot)ch
> <mailto:stelian(at)iancu(dot)ch>> wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> I have Postgres 9.3.2 running on Debian 7.
>
> I would like to enable the pg_stat_statements extension. In order to
> do this, I added the following line to postgresql.conf:
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> shared_preload_libraries = 'pg_stat_statements'
>
> However after that the server fails to restart and I get the
> following error message:
>
> Restarting PostgreSQL 9.3 database server: mainThe PostgreSQL server
> failed to start. Please check the log output: 2014-02-06 15:12:34
> CET FATAL: could not access file "pg_stat_statements": No such file
> or directory ... failed!
> failed!
>
> Any ideas why?
>
>
>
> Have you also installed the postgresql-contrib-9.3 package (via apt-get
> etc)? Once you do that, you'll likely need to create the extension in
> your database, eg. "create extension pg_stat_statements;", then you you
> can set the shared_preload_libraries value.
>

No, I haven't done that, didn't know I have to do it, thanks! I will do
like you suggested.

Thanks again!

S.