pgAdmin
pgAdmin is a graphical tool used for PostgreSQL administration; it is available on Linux, Windows and macOS X. You can download it from https://www.pgadmin.org.
With pgAdmin, you can do the following:
- Multiple connections
- Overview of the server status in real time
- Graphical explain and graphical explain analyze
- Create databases, schemas, tables, and so on
- Run queries
Take a view at the following figure for better understanding:
Profiling the database
Sometimes, figuring out why your code isn't working properly is best done by diving into the database itself and looking for bottlenecks in its code. There are a few techniques available for this.
gprof
The standard GNU profiler, gprof, is available for most Unix-like systems. If you compile the PostgreSQL server using the --enable-profiling option, it will produce a gmon.out file that can be given to gprof for verbose profiling of the server internals.
The main issue with gprof profiling and PostgreSQL is that it's known to have problems when tracing...
