Re: how to know the current size of a database

From: Farhan Mughal <farhanhafeezmughal(at)yahoo(dot)co(dot)uk>
To: son(at)raider(dot)co(dot)nz, pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: how to know the current size of a database
Date: 2007-09-19 11:54:09
Message-ID: 271649.58727.qm@web26309.mail.ukl.yahoo.com
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>>I want to know about the size of my database. For example, I want to know
>>how many Mb of data for current myDatabase database in a postgres server.

>>How I can do that?

Try the following query:
select pg_size_pretty(pg_database_size('<DATABASE NAME>'));

--Farhan

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From: "son(at)raider(dot)co(dot)nz" <son(at)raider(dot)co(dot)nz>
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Sent: Wednesday, 19 September, 2007 3:36:02 PM
Subject: [GENERAL] how to know the current size of a database

Hello

I want to know about the size of my database. For example, I want to know
how many Mb of data for current myDatabase database in a postgres server.

How I can do that?
Thanks

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