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Postgres 9.1 statistics in pg_stat_database

I've been searching for some information about Postgres 9.1 stats which are stored in pg_stat_database - on the web and on IRC. I found SOME information for 9.2 but even that doesn't seem to be ...
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Can't understand results of pg_stat_statements view

I configured my postgresql.conf (my version is 9.1) with the normal persistent configuration: shared_preload_libraries = 'pg_stat_statements,plperl' custom_variable_classes = ...
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Fast general method to calculate percentiles

I want to find n>1 percentiles of an unsorted column in PostgreSQL. For example the 20th, 40th, 60th, 80th and 100th percentile. An obvious solution is to count and sort the column and then do a ...
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How do I replicate SQL Server index INCLUDE and STATISTICS functionality on PostgreSQL?

I'm working on a project that must support two database engines; SQL Server and PostgreSQL. We are using NHibernate as the ORM. We are running into performance issues with certain queries. Using ...
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How to calculate cache misses for PostgreSQL

I'm administering a server where a tool using a PostgreSQL runs. The tool takes care of most PostgreSQL configurations by itself, but I'm observing some performance problems. I could confirm at OS ...
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PostgreSQL and query planner

I have question about query planner in PostgreSQL. I know, that this planner is taking data from pg_statistics, but... Can anyone tell me on what basis this planner is taking those informations to ...
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Estimate average and median efficiently in Postgres?

I have a Postgres database with tables in the billion scale. So any aggregate functions such as count() and avg(), as well as "order by random()" are very time consuming. Postgres has pg_catalog which ...