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From: Peter Geoghegan <pg(at)heroku(dot)com>
To: Anned-Linz Senadin <anned-linz(dot)senadin(dot)1(at)ulaval(dot)ca>
Cc: "jdrake(at)postgresql(dot)org" <jdrake(at)postgresql(dot)org>, "pgsql-bugs(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-bugs(at)postgresql(dot)org>, "selena(at)postgresql(dot)org" <selena(at)postgresql(dot)org>
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Date: 2014-08-06 01:33:46
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On Tue, Aug 5, 2014 at 5:23 PM, Anned-Linz Senadin
<anned-linz(dot)senadin(dot)1(at)ulaval(dot)ca> wrote:
> I am a student at Laval University using PosgreSQL in work paper. So Would
> like to know if there a way or a SQL to calculate the size of a record in a
> table. I tried to use VSIZE used in Oracle but PostgreSQL is not regognized
> this function.

This is the kind of question that would be better suited to pgsql-general.

I think pg_column_size() is what you're looking for. Note that issues
like alignment, and page storage overhead are likely to obscure things
if you're considering overall on-disk storage.

--
Peter Geoghegan

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