Re: [PATCH] psql: \dn+ to show size of each schema..

On Wed, 2021-07-14 at 14:05 +0900, Ian Lawrence Barwick wrote:
> 2021年7月14日(水) 12:07 Justin Pryzby <pryzby(at)telsasoft(dot)com>:
> > \db+ and \l+ show sizes of tablespaces and databases, so I was surprised in the
> > past that \dn+ didn't show sizes of schemas. I would find that somewhat
> > convenient, and I assume other people would use it even more useful.
>
> It's something which would be useful to have. But see this previous proposal:
>
> https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/2d6d2ebf-4dbc-4f74-17d8-05461f4782e2%40dalibo.com

Right, I would not like to cause a lot of I/O activity just to look at the
permissions on a schema...

Besides, schemas are not physical, but logical containers. So I see a point in
measuring the storage used in a certain tablespace, but not so much by all objects
in a certain schema. It might be useful for accounting purposes, though.
But I don't expect it to be in frequent enough demand to add a psql command.

What about inventing a function pg_schema_size(regnamespace)?

Yours,
Laurenz Albe