Re: What's the XID?

Jeff Frost <jeff@frostconsultingllc.com> writes:
> On Thu, 27 Dec 2007, Tom Lane wrote:
>> There's no global counter.  There's a backend-local "virtual transaction
>> id" counter.

> That's a drag as I have quite a few clients who graph the xacts/sec with MRTG.
> Most of these clients have read heavy workloads and it would be great to be
> able to graph read vs write xacts, but a drag if you have no visibility into
> the read xacts.

Why aren't you using the pgstats xact counters for that?

            regards, tom lane