Re: Calculating size of the database tables - Mailing list pgsql-admin

Have you read the documentation section on managing disk space?

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akuppachi@hss.hns.com wrote:
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> Thanks for the response. However, the README.dbsize says that "When
> computing the size of a table, it does not include TOAST or index disk
> space." So dbsize would not be giving me the total diskspace occupied by my
> tables, right ? I need to know the full disk space so i can do some hard
> disk size calculations. Is there any other way to do this?
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> TIA,
> Aparna.
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> Hi,
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> On Thu, 10 Jun 2004 akuppachi@hss.hns.com wrote:
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> > I would appreciate any pointers to finding out the correct size occupied
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> > my database tables. Will the physical size of the "data" folder (as given
> > by 'ls' command) give me the true size, or is there any other sql command
> > that i can use to get this information?  I am using PostgreSQL, version
> > 7.4.1 server libraries.
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> Please see contrib/dbsize. From README file:
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> This module contains two functions that report the size of a given
> database or relation.  E.g.,
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> SELECT database_size('template1');
> SELECT relation_size('pg_class');
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> These functions report the actual file system space.  Thus, users can
> avoid digging through the details of the database directories.
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> Regards,
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