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Useful PostgreSQL Queries and Commands
-- show running queries
SELECT procpid, age(query_start, clock_timestamp()), usename, current_query
FROM pg_stat_activity
WHERE current_query != '<IDLE>' AND current_query NOT ILIKE '%pg_stat_activity%'
ORDER BY query_start desc;
-- kill running query
SELECT pg_cancel_backend(procpid);
-- all database users
select * from pg_stat_activity where current_query not like '<%';
-- all databases and their sizes
select * from pg_user;
-- all tables and their size, with/without indexes
select datname,
pg_size_pretty(pg_database_size(datname))
from pg_database
order by pg_database_size(datname) desc;
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