Re: Detemine database size on Postgres 8.0

From: Greg Smith <gsmith(at)gregsmith(dot)com>
To: Scott Marlowe <scott(dot)marlowe(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Thom Brown <thombrown(at)gmail(dot)com>, pgsql general <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Detemine database size on Postgres 8.0
Date: 2009-03-03 00:05:00
Message-ID: Pine.GSO.4.64.0903021901550.5550@westnet.com
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On Mon, 2 Mar 2009, Scott Marlowe wrote:

> Back in the olden days when I was on 8.0 I would just use du -sh to find
> out. and match them up. yeah, I had a script that made it prettier but
> that worked fine.

Not sure what version I started using this trick on:

SELECT relfilenode, relpages * 8 AS kb FROM pg_class;

But that might have been 8.0.

There is an example of a script like you describe on starting on P88 of
Bruce's presentation at

http://momjian.us/main/writings/pgsql/administration.pdf

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* Greg Smith gsmith(at)gregsmith(dot)com http://www.gregsmith.com Baltimore, MD

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