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PostgreSQL 10 Administration Cookbook - Fourth Edition

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PostgreSQL 10 Administration Cookbook - Fourth Edition

Overview of this book

PostgreSQL is a powerful, open source database management system with an enviable reputation for high performance and stability. With many new features in its arsenal, PostgreSQL 10 allows users to scale up their PostgreSQL infrastructure. This book takes a step-by-step, recipe-based approach to effective PostgreSQL administration. Throughout this book, you will be introduced to these new features such as logical replication, native table partitioning, additional query parallelism, and much more. You will learn how to tackle a variety of problems that are basically the pain points for any database administrator - from creating tables to managing views, from improving performance to securing your database. More importantly, the book pays special attention to topics such as monitoring roles, backup, and recovery of your PostgreSQL 10 database, ensuring high availability, concurrency, and replication. By the end of this book, you will know everything you need to know to be the go-to PostgreSQL expert in your organization.
Table of Contents (14 chapters)

Knowing who is blocking a query

Once you have found out that a query is blocked, you need to know who or what is blocking them.

Getting ready

If you are logged in as a superuser you will have full access to monitoring information.

How to do it...

  1. You can write the following query:
SELECT datname
, usename
, wait_event_type
, wait_event
, pg_blocking_pids(pid) AS blocked_by
, query
FROM pg_stat_activity
WHERE wait_event_type IS NOT NULL

AND wait_event_type NOT IN ('Activity', 'Client');
  1. You will get an output like the following:
-[ RECORD 1 ]---+-------...