Finding out what the users are currently running

Using this recipe, we will get all the current running SQL commands from the PostgreSQL instance.

Getting ready

In the previous recipe, we discussed how to get all the active sessions information, and now we are going to get all the SQL statements that the active sessions are executing.

How to do it...

1. Initiate pgbench as aforementioned.

2. Connect to the PostgreSQL database as either a superuser or database owner and execute the following SQL statement:

           $ psql -h localhost -U postgres 
           postgres=# SELECT
             datname, 
             usename, 
             application_name, 
             now()-backend_start AS "Session duration", 
             pid, 
             query 
           FROM 
             pg_stat_activity 
           WHERE 
             state='active'; 
           -[ RECORD 1 ]----+-------------------------------
           datname          | postgres 
           usename          | postgres...