Re: Disk usage - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Bruce Momjian
Subject Re: Disk usage
Date
Msg-id 200305081957.h48Jvu518966@candle.pha.pa.us
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In response to Re: Disk usage  (Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@dcc.uchile.cl>)
List pgsql-general
Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> On Thu, May 08, 2003 at 10:39:48AM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
>
> > Or do
> >
> >     vacuum;
> >     select relname, relpages * 8 from pg_class;
> >
> > to get table sizes in kilobytes.  relpages is not updated on-the-fly,
> > only by vacuum, so you need to have done vacuum recently to get
> > trustworthy numbers.
>
> Doesn't ANALYZE update relpages values?

Yes, vacuum and analyze do it.  There is a 'monitoring disk space'
section in the 7.3 docs too.

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