Re: What's the XID?

[Jeff Frost <jeff(at)frostconsultingllc(dot)com>]

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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