Re: Checking what is the current query running

Hi,

pg_stat_activity has some limitations however; if you use a lot of
dynamically generated complex queries, you might stumble over the 255
character limit of current_query in pg_stat_activity, statement-strings
longer than that are just cut off.

You can get some more information if you need it, using the GNU debugger
gdb: First you need to determine the PID of the PostgreSQL backend
that's running your query - I usually use top for that, but
pg_stat_activity does also give you that info (select procpid from
pg_stat_activity ...). Once you have the PID, you start the GNU debugger
with

gdb [path_to_postgres] [pid]
e.g. gdb /opt/pgsql/bin/postgres 551

Now issue the command
    printf "%s\n", debug_query_string
to obtain the query string. To quit the debugger, just type "quit" and
confirm - the backend will keep processing the query uninterrupted.

Kind regards

   Markus