Re: Estimating a table size

From: "Shoaib Mir" <shoaibmir(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: "Guido Barosio" <gbarosio(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: rodrigo(dot)sakai(at)zanthus(dot)com(dot)br, pgsql-admin(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Estimating a table size
Date: 2006-09-21 17:50:14
Message-ID: bf54be870609211050q2f78502bya6640a7bdf4bfd1c@mail.gmail.com
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http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.1/static/diskusage.html can help you get
this information.

Thanks,
--
Shoaib Mir
EnterpriseDB (www.enterprisedb.com)

On 9/21/06, Guido Barosio <gbarosio(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
>
> there used to be a dbsize project, search for it.
>
> g.-
> On 9/21/06, Rodrigo Sakai <rodrigo(dot)sakai(at)zanthus(dot)com(dot)br> wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > Hello all,
> >
> >
> >
> > I need a tool or something like it, which can give me the estimated
> size
> > of a table considering all fields, constraints, indexes, etc...
> >
> >
> >
> > For example:
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > CREATE TABLE products (
> >
> > product_id INT8,
> >
> > product_name VARCHAR(50),
> >
> > product_vendor VARCHAR(50),
> >
> > price NUMERIC(10,2),
> >
> >
> >
> > CONSTRAINT pk_products PRIMARY KEY (product_id),
> >
> > CONSTRAINT ck_price CHECK (price >= 0)
> >
> > );
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > CREATE INDEX ix_products ON products (product_name);
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > See that in the example above I have, some fields, some constraints
> and
> > one index. I want to know (estimate) how much fisical space (KB, MB) it
> will
> > consume!
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > Thanks in advance!
> >
> >
>
>
> --
> Guido Barosio
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