How To Install pgstat on Ubuntu 22.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install pgstat
on Ubuntu 22.04.
What is pgstat
pgstat is:
pgstat is a client utility to gather statistical information from a PostgreSQL instance in real time, and acts like vmstat or sar.
Supported statistics include archiver, bgwriter, connections, databases, tables, tables I/O, indexes, functions, archives wals, temporary files, and pgBouncer.
There are three methods to install pgstat
on Ubuntu 22.04. We can use apt-get
, apt
and aptitude
. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install pgstat Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install pgstat
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install pgstat
Install pgstat Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install pgstat
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install pgstat
Install pgstat Using aptitude
If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Ubuntu. Update apt database with aptitude
using the following command.
sudo aptitude update
After updating apt database, We can install pgstat
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install pgstat
How To Uninstall pgstat on Ubuntu 22.04
To uninstall only the pgstat
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove pgstat
Uninstall pgstat And Its Dependencies
To uninstall pgstat
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 22.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove pgstat
Remove pgstat Configurations and Data
To remove pgstat
configuration and data from Ubuntu 22.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge pgstat
Remove pgstat configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove pgstat
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge pgstat
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install pgstat
package on Ubuntu 22.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.