Re: db size reporting - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: db size reporting
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Msg-id 16483.1129169285@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to db size reporting  (jeff sacksteder <jsacksteder@gmail.com>)
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jeff sacksteder <jsacksteder@gmail.com> writes:
> I'm going to be working with some rather large datasets and I want to
> evaluate the effects of normalization/denormalization on disk space. Is
> there a simple way to find the size on disk of a specific database?

Look into the functions offered by contrib/dbsize.  Or read
http://developer.postgresql.org/docs/postgres/storage.html
and use du by hand ;-)

            regards, tom lane

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