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PostgreSQL 11 Administration Cookbook

You're reading from   PostgreSQL 11 Administration Cookbook Over 175 recipes for database administrators to manage enterprise databases

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Product type Paperback
Published in May 2019
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781789537581
Length 600 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Gianni Ciolli Gianni Ciolli
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Sudheer Kumar Meesala Sudheer Kumar Meesala
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Table of Contents (14) Chapters Close

Preface 1. First Steps FREE CHAPTER 2. Exploring the Database 3. Configuration 4. Server Control 5. Tables and Data 6. Security 7. Database Administration 8. Monitoring and Diagnosis 9. Regular Maintenance 10. Performance and Concurrency 11. Backup and Recovery 12. Replication and Upgrades 13. Other Books You May Enjoy

Knowing whether anybody is using a specific table

This recipe helps you when you are in doubt about whether an obscure table is being used anymore, or if it has been left over from past use and is just taking up space.

Getting ready

Make sure that you are a superuser, or at least have full rights to the table in question.

How to do it…

Perform the following steps:

  1. To see whether a table is currently in active use (that is, whether anyone is using it while you are watching it), run the following query on the database you plan to inspect:
CREATE TEMPORARY TABLE...
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