Re: We want to monitor total size of database - Mailing list pgsql-novice

From Larry Rosenman
Subject Re: We want to monitor total size of database
Date
Msg-id E1Erbqd-0003gs-H2@lerami.lerctr.org
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In response to We want to monitor total size of database  (Yumiko Izumi <izumi-yumiko@scnet.co.jp>)
List pgsql-novice
On Dec 27 2005, Yumiko Izumi wrote:

> Hello.
>
> We want to monitor the following items with respect to PostgreSQL.
> *Total Size of database
> *Size of used space of the entire database
> *Size of free space of the entire database
> *Size of fragmentation area of the entire database
>
> But the following items are getting monitored in PostgreSQL7.3.8.
> ("Pgstattuple" is used for monitoring)
> *Total of sizes of all the tables in database
> *Total of used space by all the tables in database
> *Total of free space of all the tables in database
> *Total of fragmentation area of all the tables in database
>
> In short, in 7.3.8 we are not able to acquire the information on the
> space related to index but the information of the partial area of the
> database is monitored.
>
> Therefore, we are in search of the method to monitor the space of the
> entire database.
>
> Our question is: Is there any method available in PostgreSQL8.1.0 for
> monitoring the space of the entire database ?

I believe that the pgstat* functions were improved in 8.1 to include
this information.

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