SHOW TRANSACTIONS

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The SHOW TRANSACTIONS statement lists details about currently active transactions, including:

  • The node running the transaction
  • The application that initiated the transaction
  • The number of statements that have been executed on the transaction
  • The number of times the transaction was retried (both manually and by the SQL executor)

These details let you monitor the overall state of transactions and identify those that may need further investigation or adjustment.

Required privileges

No privileges are required to execute this statement. However, note that non-admin users see only their own currently active transactions, whereas the admin users see all users' currently active transactions.

Syntax

SHOW [ALL] [CLUSTER | LOCAL] TRANSACTIONS
  • To list the active transactions across all nodes of the cluster, use SHOW TRANSACTIONS or SHOW CLUSTER TRANSACTIONS.
  • To list the active transactions just on the gateway node, use SHOW LOCAL TRANSACTIONS.
  • To list internal transactions (that are issued by the database itself), use SHOW ALL .. TRANSACTIONS.

Response

The following fields are returned for each transaction:

Field Description
node_id The ID of the node running the transaction.
txn_id The ID of the transaction.
application_name The application name specified by the client, if any. For transactions from the built-in SQL client, this will be $ cockroach sql.
num_stmts The number of statements that have been executed on the transaction.
num_retries The number of times that the transaction was retried.
num_auto_retries The number of times that the transaction was automatically retried by the SQL executor.

Examples

List active transactions across the cluster

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> SHOW CLUSTER TRANSACTIONS;
  node_id |                txn_id                | application_name | num_stmts | num_retries | num_auto_retries
----------+--------------------------------------+------------------+-----------+-------------+-------------------
        1 | 1f02ca1c-46c8-491b-8048-daa6b38fc587 | $ cockroach sql  |         1 |           0 |                0
        2 | 3af3f2e3-d0ed-4fd4-886b-1f5fc67b397d | movr             |         1 |           0 |                0
(2 rows)

Alternatively, you can use SHOW TRANSACTIONS to receive the same response.

List active transactions on the gateway node

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> SHOW LOCAL TRANSACTIONS;
  node_id |                txn_id                | application_name | num_stmts | num_retries | num_auto_retries
----------+--------------------------------------+------------------+-----------+-------------+-------------------
        1 | 1f02ca1c-46c8-491b-8048-daa6b38fc587 | $ cockroach sql  |         1 |           0 |                0
(1 row)

Filter for specific transactions

You can use a SELECT statement to filter the list of currently active transactions by one or more of the response fields.

Show transactions associated with a specific application

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> WITH x as (SHOW CLUSTER TRANSACTIONS) SELECT * FROM x WHERE application_name = 'movr';

  node_id |                txn_id                | application_name | num_stmts | num_retries | num_auto_retries
----------+--------------------------------------+------------------+-----------+-------------+-------------------
        1 | 59891000-260a-44f6-abf9-59c94fefc081 | movr             |         1 |           0 |                0
(1 row)

Exclude transactions from the built-in SQL client

To exclude transactions from the built-in SQL client, filter for transactions that do not show $ cockroach sql as the application_name:

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> WITH x AS (SHOW CLUSTER TRANSACTIONS) SELECT * FROM x
      WHERE application_name != '$ cockroach sql';
  node_id |                txn_id                | application_name | num_stmts | num_retries | num_auto_retries
----------+--------------------------------------+------------------+-----------+-------------+-------------------
        1 | 8851060b-5e7c-4402-a8cd-487baa63e02e | movr             |         1 |           0 |                0
(1 row)

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