Is there a PostgreSQL equivalent of SQL Server profiler?
I need to see the queries submitted to a PostgreSQL server. Normally I would use SQL Server profiler to perform this action in SQL Server land, but I'm yet to find how to do this in PostgreSQL. There appears to be quite a few pay-for tools, I am hoping there is an open source variant.
Answer
You can use the log_statement config setting to get the list of all the queries to a server
https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/static/runtime-config-logging.html#guc-log-statement
Just set that, and the logging file path and you'll have the list. You can also configure it to only log long running queries.
You can then take those queries and run EXPLAIN on them to find out what's going on with them.
https://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.2/static/using-explain.html