Postgres Notes

Wide outout

Good for seeing examples of FEW records:

\x
select * from users limit 1;

An App user

Adding a secure , least priviledges user for you app, no root.

GRANT USAGE ON SCHEMA public TO myuser; -- more schemas?
GRANT SELECT ON ALL TABLES IN SCHEMA public TO myuser;

This ensure taht all subsequent tables are accessable by that user ( role ):

ALTER DEFAULT PRIVILEGES FOR ROLE mycreating_user IN SCHEMA public
GRANT SELECT ON TABLES TO myuser;

ref: https://dba.stackexchange.com/questions/91953/grant-access-to-all-tables-of-a-database

full treatment: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/41537825/restricted-postgresql-permissions-for-web-app/47955583#47955583

RDS Gochas

Grant the master user to the role you want to grant others ( RDS only )

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/26684643/error-must-be-member-of-role-when-creating-schema-in-postgresql

per table cache hit ratios

SELECT 
  relname as table , 
  heap_blks_read as heap_read,
  heap_blks_hit as heap_hit,
  to_char( ( heap_blks_hit::decimal / ( heap_blks_hit::decimal + heap_blks_read::decimal ) ) * 100 , '99.99' )
FROM 
  pg_statio_user_tables
WHERE 
  heap_blks_hit + heap_blks_read > 0
  AND relid > 10000
ORDER BY relname;

dont forget to select pg_stat_reset();

percent of time index used

SELECT 
  relname, 
  100 * idx_scan / (seq_scan + idx_scan) percent_of_times_index_used, 
  n_live_tup rows_in_table
FROM 
  pg_stat_user_tables
WHERE 
    seq_scan + idx_scan > 0 
ORDER BY 
  percent_of_times_index_used ASC;

vacuum stats

SELECT 
  relname, 
  last_vacuum,
  last_autovacuum,
  vacuum_count,
  autovacuum_count
FROM 
  pg_stat_user_tables
ORDER BY 
  last_autovacuum ASC;

cache hit ration summary

SELECT 
  sum(heap_blks_read) as heap_read,
  sum(heap_blks_hit)  as heap_hit,
  sum(heap_blks_hit) / (sum(heap_blks_hit) + sum(heap_blks_read)) as ratio
FROM 
  pg_statio_user_tables;

best to reset counters some where in there.

pg_stat_reset()

Enable Extensions

In AWS RDS Postgres check that the extention you want is already in the param group.

Name: rds.extensions Values: ... big long string...

then check the system var:

SHOW rds.extensions;

Then enable it:

CREATE EXTENSION IF NOT EXISTS tablefunc;

Tablefunc gives you the awesome crosstabN() funtion.

References:

• https://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.1/sql-createextension.html
• https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonRDS/latest/UserGuide/CHAP_PostgreSQL.html
• https://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.6/tablefunc.html#AEN190375 ( crosstabN() )