pg_wait_sampling

Overview

PGDG 1st Party Extension: pg_wait_sampling : sampling based statistics of wait events

Information

• Extension ID: 6270
• Extension Name: pg_wait_sampling
• Package Name: pg_wait_sampling
• Category: STAT
• License: PostgreSQL
• Website: https://github.com/postgrespro/pg_wait_sampling
• Language: C
• Extra Tags: N/A
• Comment: N/A

Metadata

• Latest Version: 1.1.8
• Postgres Support: 17,16,15,14,13
• Need Load: Explicit Loading Required
• Need DDL: Need CREATE EXTENSION DDL
• Relocatable: Can not install to arbitrary schema
• Trusted: Untrusted, Require Superuser to Create
• Schemas: N/A
• Requires: N/A

RPM / DEB

• RPM Repo: PGDG
• RPM Name: pg_wait_sampling_$v*
• RPM Ver : 1.1.8
• RPM Deps: N/A
• DEB Repo: PGDG
• DEB Name: postgresql-$v-pg-wait-sampling
• DEB Ver : 1.1.8
• DEB Deps: N/A

Availability

Installation

Install pg_wait_sampling via the pig CLI tool:

pig ext install pg_wait_sampling

Install pg_wait_sampling via Pigsty playbook:

./pgsql.yml -t pg_extension -e '{"pg_extensions": ["pg_wait_sampling"]}' # -l <cls>

Install pg_wait_sampling RPM from YUM repo directly:

dnf install pg_wait_sampling_17*;
dnf install pg_wait_sampling_16*;
dnf install pg_wait_sampling_15*;
dnf install pg_wait_sampling_14*;
dnf install pg_wait_sampling_13*;

Install pg_wait_sampling DEB from APT repo directly:

apt install postgresql-17-pg-wait-sampling;
apt install postgresql-16-pg-wait-sampling;
apt install postgresql-15-pg-wait-sampling;
apt install postgresql-14-pg-wait-sampling;
apt install postgresql-13-pg-wait-sampling;

Extension pg_wait_sampling has to be loaded via shared_preload_libraries

shared_preload_libraries = 'pg_wait_sampling'; # add to pg cluster config

Create pg_wait_sampling extension on PostgreSQL cluster:

CREATE EXTENSION pg_wait_sampling;