Re: How to find out database size

From: <mallah(at)trade-india(dot)com>
To: <michael(at)synchronicity(dot)com>
Cc: <pgsql-admin(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: How to find out database size
Date: 2003-04-03 16:43:10
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contrib/dbsize gives the diskspace the database is occupying.

not sure though how much space will dup file from pg_dump
occupy. BTW you could use -Fc otpion to produce commpressed
dumps.

regds
mallah.

> Is there a way to find out how much disk space I will need
> for the dump file before I run pg_dump on the database?
> Thank you,
> Mike.
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