Thread: Finding out db size...

Is there any possible way to do a SQL query to return some sort of
representation of how large the entire db is? Or even how large a single
table is?

See the administration chapter of the docs on analyzing disk space.

Christopher.Becker@apcc.com wrote:
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Hi,

On Fri, 30 Apr 2004 Christopher.Becker@apcc.com wrote:

> Is there any possible way to do a SQL query to return some sort of
> representation of how large the entire db is? Or even how large a single
> table is?

See contrib/dbsize

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If you install the dbsize extension in the contrib directory for the source
code, then you can run queries like this

SELECT database_size('my_database');
SELECT relation_size('my_table');

HTH

adam


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> Is there any possible way to do a SQL query to return some sort of
> representation of how large the entire db is? Or even how large a single
> table is?
>
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