Re: How to determine number of established connections

On Mon, Feb 20, 2006 at 07:39:55PM +0200, Andrus wrote:
> When connectiong to database my application needs to determine how many
> connections is currently established to Postgres server.

You could query pg_stat_activity or the underlying statistics
collector functions.

http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.1/interactive/monitoring-stats.html

Statistics collector reports lag behind actual activity but they
might suffice for whatever you're doing.  Why does your application
need to know this?

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Michael Fuhr