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Responses Re: table disk space usage query?  (Dimitri Fontaine <dfontaine@hi-media.com>)
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Hello all -

I was looking for a way to find out how much disk space each table is
using.

I stumbled upon this page ( http://www.ffnn.nl/pages/articles/linux/postgresql-tips-and-tricks.php
) which gave me a query to show the number of disk pages per object.
Given that a page is 8kb, I added these calculated columns to the
query:

SELECT relname, reltuples, relpages,
relpages * 8 AS relpagesKB,
(relpages * 8 )/1024 AS relpagesMB
FROM pg_class ORDER BY relpages DESC ;

Is this correct?


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