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() )

Pivot table in postgres?

use crosstabN ...

Random data

Generate

reference:

• https://chartio.com/learn/sql/random-sequences/

Random date:

SELECT date_trunc('day', date '2014-01-10' + random() * interval '3 days' )::timestamp::date as day, seq, u.id AS user_id
  FROM GENERATE_SERIES(1, 50) seq, users u;

SELECT TO_CHAR(day, 'YYYY-MM-DD'), random() FROM generate_series
        ( '2017-02-01'::date
        , '2017-04-01'::date
        , '1 day'::interval) day

Select

examine the shape of your ID:

SELECT count(*) AS ct              -- optional
     , min(id)  AS min_id
     , max(id)  AS max_id
     , max(id) - min(id) AS id_span
FROM mytable ;
<pre>

let us suppose that your span is 5100000 and that you distribution of id is dense

<pre>
WITH params AS (
    SELECT 1       AS min_id           -- minimum id <= current min id
         , 5100000 AS id_span          -- rounded up. (max_id - min_id + buffer)
    )
SELECT *
FROM  (
    SELECT p.min_id + trunc(random() * p.id_span)::integer AS id
    FROM   params p
          ,generate_series(1, 1100) g  -- 1000 + buffer
    GROUP  BY 1                        -- trim duplicates
    ) r
JOIN   big USING (id)
LIMIT  1000;