Real-time viewing using pgAdmin
You can also use a GUI tool such as pgAdmin, which we discussed for the first time in Chapter 1, First Steps, to get a quick view of what is going on in the database.
Getting ready
pgAdmin 4
no longer requires an extension to access PostgreSQL fully, so there is no need to install adminpack
, as was required in earlier editions.
How to do it…
This section illustrates the pgAdmin tool.
Once you have connected to the database server, a window similar to the one shown in the following screenshot will be displayed, where you can see a general view, plus information about connections, overall activity, and running transactions:
Figure 8.3: pgAdmin dashboard of live usage