Re: How to track number of connections and hosts to Postgres cluster

On 08/24/2011 07:07 AM, Venkat Balaji wrote:

But, if put log_connections to on and log_disconnections to on wouldn't the Postgres be logging in lot of data ?
Will this not be IO intensive ? I understand that this is the best way, but, would want to know if there is an other way to reduce IO ( may be through queries to catalog tables ).

Your requirements include:  " I need all the host IPs making a connection to Postgres Cluster (even for a fraction of second)."

The only way to do this is to log every connection.  Any other approach for grabbing the data, such as looking at pg_stat_activity, will sometimes miss one.

If you're willing to lose a connection sometimes, a cron job that polls pg_stat_activity and saves a summary of what it finds will normally use less resources.  But connections that start and end between runs will be missed.