Is a new version of this patch coming?
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Bruce Momjian wrote:
> 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
> >
> > > 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.
> >
> > Err, yes - posted that before I got your reply!
> >
> > > Do we have to use pg_object_size? Is there a better name? Are
> > > indexes/toasts even objects?
> >
> > 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.
> >
> > 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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