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From Jim C. Nasby
Subject Re: growth of a postgresql database
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In response to Re: growth of a postgresql database  ("mcelroy, tim" <tim.mcelroy@bostonstock.com>)
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On Wed, Jun 07, 2006 at 12:43:59PM -0400, mcelroy, tim wrote:
> The contrib/dbsize module will accomplish what you want.  I use release
> 8.0.1 and it works for me.
>
> It provides the size of the DB, you could cron a job to take readings at
> various times and calculate the growth that way.

If you're on 8.1.x, see also \df pg_*size*
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