Re: Monitoring backend activities

> Hi everybody,
>  I'm a hookie in this discussion list. Well, my intent is to get some
> informations about PostgreSQL internals to work on a project. There
> is an excellent GPL'ed tool to work with Oracle called TOra. It is as
> good as TOAD and SQL Navigator from Quest Software. As a meaning of
> collaborate with the Open Source world i was thinking in port TOra to
> PostgreSQL. So, we'll have a great database and a great tool to manage
> it.

I think that would be "rookie;" the term "hookie" refers to what you're 
"playing" if you skip school.

>  Problem is: reading PostgreSQL documentation i didn't find any
> information about system tables having runtime informations as Oracle
> has. And one of the great features of TOra is the possibility to see
> in charts, in real-time, all kind of I/O operations, memory usage,
> queries being executed, etc...

The only problem I see is that TOra already seems quite well supported for 
PostgreSQL.  I'm running it at the moment, and it works quite well...
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