pgtop was inspired by mytop (http://jeremy.zawodny.com/mysql/mytop/), which in turn was inspired by the system monitoring tool top. pgtop will connect to a PostgreSQL server and periodically run queries against the pg_stat* relations and attempt to summarize the information from them in a useful format. WWW: http://search.cpan.org/~cosimo/pgtop-0.04/pgtop