Re: Dbsize backend integration - Mailing list pgsql-patches

From Bruce Momjian
Subject Re: Dbsize backend integration
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Msg-id 200506291145.j5TBjis29145@candle.pha.pa.us
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In response to Re: Dbsize backend integration  ("Dave Page" <dpage@vale-housing.co.uk>)
Responses Re: Dbsize backend integration  (Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>)
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Dave Page wrote:
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> -----Original Message----- From: Bruce Momjian
> [mailto:pgman@candle.pha.pa.us] Sent: Wed 6/29/2005 2:16 AM To: Dave
> Page Cc: PostgreSQL-patches; PostgreSQL-development Subject: Re:
> [PATCHES] Dbsize backend integration
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> > OK, so you went with relation as heap/index/toast only, and table as the
> > total of them.  I am not sure that makes sense because we usually equate
> > relation with table, and an index isn't a relation, really.
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> Err, yes - posted that before I got your reply!
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> > Do we have to use pg_object_size?  Is there a better name?  Are
> > indexes/toasts even objects?
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> Yeah, I think perhaps pg_object_size is better in some ways than
> pg_relation_size, however I stuck with relation because (certainly in
> pgAdmin world) we tend to think of pretty much anything as an object.
> I could go either way on that though, however Michael doesn't seem so
> keen.
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> So, one for pg_object_size, one on the fench and one against :-). Anyone
> else got a preference?

I have a new idea --- pg_storage_size().  That would do just the
toast/index/heap, and pg_relation_size() gets a total of them all, and
only works on heap, no index or toast.

How is that?

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