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Reviewing Table-Level Statistics in Postgres

Muhammad Ali explains what information you can find regarding tables in Postgres:

Database monitoring, performance tuning and query optimization are critical operations for maintaining an efficient database system. A key component in PostgreSQL for this purpose is the pg_stat_all_tables view.

pg_stat_all_tables offers real time statistics on table activities such as number of sequential and index scans performed on a table, updates, deletes, inserts, and more. It also offers information on dead tuples along with vacuum and analyze stats which enables DB admins to make data-driven decisions. Here’s a table detailing the columns in the pg_stat_all_tables:

Click through for that table about tables.