On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 7:33 PM, Duan Ligong <l-duan@zd.cnes.jp.nec.com> wrote:
>
> Hi, all
>
> Is there a way to estimate the size of the space which a postgresql database
> occupies? or the max size of db?
>
> I know there are a lot of factors, such as the frequency
> of updating, data size, which affects the size of db and it seems difficult
> to estimate it precisely.
There's also the old fashioned way:
sudo su - postgres
cd $PGDATA # or wherever you point with -D on startup
du -sh .
