Re: frustration with database size - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Thomas F. O'Connell
Subject Re: frustration with database size
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Msg-id 3C4C7CA8.8080005@monsterlabs.com
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In response to Re: frustration with database size  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
Responses Re: frustration with database size  (Einar Karttunen <ekarttun@cs.helsinki.fi>)
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> An easy way to get some data is to do a VACUUM so that the relpages
> statistics are up to date, and then do
>
> select relname,relkind,relpages from pg_class order by relpages desc;


well, that certainly is data. but what does it mean?

what does this query actually spell out?

to what do relkind and relpages refere?

just curious.

thanks!

-tfo


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