On Thu, 27 Dec 2007, Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> Jeff Frost wrote:
>
>> 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.
>
> You can still get the transaction commit counter from pgstats, right?
> In fact I would be surprised if you did something different.
>
Maybe I already am. This is what we've been doing:
select sum(xact_commit) as transactions from pg_stat_database;
Is that still the same in 8.3 (i.e. it still puts lumps in reads + writes)?
If so, pretend I said nothing before because I must have misunderstood what
Tom was saying before. :-)
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