Re: Checking a size of a given database

I found the following script useful; for calculating database size:-

-- Query returns size of a database calculated from the no. 8k pages
allocated to tables
SELECT
sum( relpages*8/1024 ) as MB
FROM
pg_class
WHERE
-- relname != ''
-- relname = 'tablename'
relnamespace = '2200'

On 4/17/07, Chuck Amadi <chuck(dot)amadi(at)rokcorp(dot)com> wrote:
>
> I have been given a task to try a proof of concept of migrating are active
> databases from PostgreSQL 8.0.1 to 8.2.3
>
> I will install and configPostgreSQL on my local w/s and replicate the
> database users etc etc.
>
> I have had a look inside /var/lib/pgsql/data/base and there are
> numerous files (db's) which I believe is where I can check data base size.
>
>
> 1 108012 114465 122407 1261267 1261963 17229 17233 17234 17235 174066 19247 205009 21272 2793694 2794334 333245 333375
>
> I am aware that Postgresql creates directories to keep each database in.
> These directories aren't names,they are kept as the *'OID's *of each
> database (oid's are*"object identifiers"*).
>
> Previously I just run pg_dump and thus run ls -lh on the db dump. Anyway
> of checking a size of a given database I have tried
> the sql using select pg_database_size ('dbaname'); but no joy.
>
> Cheers
> Chuck
>
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