Useful PostgreSQL Queries and Commands

postgres_queries_and_commands.sql

-- show running queries (9.2)
SELECT pid, age(query_start, clock_timestamp()), usename, query 
FROM pg_stat_activity 
WHERE query != '<IDLE>' AND query NOT ILIKE '%pg_stat_activity%' 
ORDER BY query_start desc;

-- kill running query
SELECT pg_cancel_backend(procpid);

-- kill idle query
SELECT pg_terminate_backend(procpid);

-- vacuum command
VACUUM (VERBOSE, ANALYZE);

-- all database users
select * from pg_stat_activity where current_query not like '<%';

-- all databases and their sizes
select * from pg_user;

-- all tables and their size, with/without indexes
select datname, pg_size_pretty(pg_database_size(datname))
from pg_database
order by pg_database_size(datname) desc;

-- cache hit rates (should not be less than 0.99)
SELECT sum(heap_blks_read) as heap_read, sum(heap_blks_hit)  as heap_hit, (sum(heap_blks_hit) - sum(heap_blks_read)) / sum(heap_blks_hit) as ratio
FROM pg_statio_user_tables;

-- table index usage rates (should not be less than 0.99)
SELECT relname, 100 * idx_scan / (seq_scan + idx_scan) percent_of_times_index_used, n_live_tup rows_in_table
FROM pg_stat_user_tables 
ORDER BY n_live_tup DESC;

-- how many indexes are in cache
SELECT sum(idx_blks_read) as idx_read, sum(idx_blks_hit)  as idx_hit, (sum(idx_blks_hit) - sum(idx_blks_read)) / sum(idx_blks_hit) as ratio
FROM pg_statio_user_indexes;

-- Dump database on remote host to file
$ pg_dump -U username -h hostname databasename > dump.sql

-- Import dump into existing database
$ psql -d newdb -f dump.sql

-- check streaming replication (on hot standby)
SELECT
CASE
WHEN pg_last_xlog_receive_location() = pg_last_xlog_replay_location() THEN 0
 ELSE EXTRACT (EPOCH FROM now() - pg_last_xact_replay_timestamp())::INTEGER
END
AS replication_lag;

-- view dependencies (tables and views)
SELECT DISTINCT nd.nspname||'.'||cl_d.relname AS ref_table
     , n.nspname||'.'||cl_r.relname as ref_view
FROM pg_rewrite AS r
JOIN pg_class AS cl_r ON r.ev_class=cl_r.oid
JOIN pg_depend AS d ON r.oid=d.objid
JOIN pg_namespace AS n ON cl_r.relnamespace = n.oid
JOIN pg_class AS cl_d ON d.refobjid=cl_d.oid
JOIN pg_namespace AS nd ON cl_d.relnamespace = nd.oid
WHERE cl_d.relkind IN ('r','v','c','m')
  AND not 'information_schema' in (n.nspname, nd.nspname)
  AND not 'pg_catalog' in (n.nspname, nd.nspname)
  AND cl_d.relname <> cl_r.relname
ORDER BY 1;

-- view dependencies (columns)
SELECT dependent_ns.nspname as dependent_schema
, dependent_view.relname as dependent_view
, source_ns.nspname as source_schema
, source_table.relname as source_table
, string_agg(pg_attribute.attname, ',') as column_names
FROM pg_depend
JOIN pg_rewrite ON pg_depend.objid = pg_rewrite.oid
JOIN pg_class as dependent_view ON pg_rewrite.ev_class = dependent_view.oid
JOIN pg_class as source_table ON pg_depend.refobjid = source_table.oid
JOIN pg_attribute ON pg_depend.refobjid = pg_attribute.attrelid
    AND pg_depend.refobjsubid = pg_attribute.attnum
JOIN pg_namespace dependent_ns ON dependent_ns.oid = dependent_view.relnamespace
JOIN pg_namespace source_ns ON source_ns.oid = source_table.relnamespace
WHERE
source_ns.nspname = 'pubdata'
and pg_attribute.attnum > 0
group by dependent_ns.nspname , dependent_view.relname , source_ns.nspname , source_table.relname
order by 1,2,3,4
;