Re: select actual data size for a relation?

From: "Joshua D(dot) Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
To: Kevin Kempter <kevink(at)consistentstate(dot)com>
Cc: "pgsql-admin(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-admin(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: select actual data size for a relation?
Date: 2009-10-22 23:56:52
Message-ID: 1256255812.2821.12.camel@jd-desktop.unknown.charter.com
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On Thu, 2009-10-22 at 17:41 -0600, Kevin Kempter wrote:
> Hi all;
>
> Anyone know how to select / calculate the actual data size for a table or
> index?

select pg_total_relation_size('relation')

>
> NOT the disk usage as in:
> pg_class.relpages -- shows disk usage including bloat
> pg_relation_size() -- same as pg_class.relpages but in bytes
> or pg_total_relation_size() -- total disk usage inclusive of bloat and
> indexes
>
> I want only the data size. I tried grabbing the sum of all the avg_width cols
> from pg_stats and multiplying times the pg_class.reltuples but this seems way
> too big.
>
> Thoughts?
>
>
>
> Thanks in advance
>

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