Re: Estimating a table size

when you have dbsize installed you need to do

select relation_size('TableName');

to get the size of the table.

On 9/21/06, Rodrigo Sakai <rodrigo(dot)sakai(at)zanthus(dot)com(dot)br> wrote:
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> Hello all,
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> I need a tool or something like it, which can give me the estimated size
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> For example:
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> CREATE TABLE products (
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> product_id INT8,
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> product_name VARCHAR(50),
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> product_vendor VARCHAR(50),
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> price NUMERIC(10,2),
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> CONSTRAINT pk_products PRIMARY KEY (product_id),
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> CONSTRAINT ck_price CHECK (price >= 0)
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> );
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> CREATE INDEX ix_products ON products (product_name);
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> 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
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> Thanks in advance!
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