Re: Documentation on disk usage

From: Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>
Cc: PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgreSQL(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Documentation on disk usage
Date: 2002-06-25 17:41:18
Message-ID: 200206251741.g5PHfIs00265@candle.pha.pa.us
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Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> It's much easier to use the routines in contrib/dbsize.

Done, though dbsize does not address indexes or TOAST tables. I have
added documentation to SGML to show how to find these values.

>
> > Since we just had the discussion about index size, I have written a
> > section for our administration manual that shows ways of finding the
> > disk usage for specific tables and databases:
> >
> > http://candle.pha.pa.us/main/writings/pgsql/sgml/diskusage.html
> >
> > I also updated README.oid2name to show a sample session that analyzes
> > disk usage.
>
> --
> Peter Eisentraut peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net
>
>

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