If you installed in the default directory then the files relating to a
database are in
/usr/local/pgsql/data/base/<databasename>
So you could just total up the size of everything under that directory.
-Mitch
----- Original Message -----
From: "Guus Kerpel" <Guus@advance.nl>
To: <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Sent: Monday, November 27, 2000 7:47 AM
Subject: [HACKERS] Size of my data base?
> Hi everybody,
>
>
> there must be a nice way of getting the size of my database (in mB,
> preferably), but I couldn't find it in the documentation that I searched
> through briefly.
>
> The reason why I wanna do this is because the server might get full
quickly
> and to make sure it doensn't happen before I know I'm writing a script
that
> sends me the size of this database per mail.
>
> Can anyone direct me to an answer to this problem?
>
> I would be most thankful,
>
>
> Gus
>
