Re: Database files - personal curiosity

From: Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: "Fontenot, Paul" <Paul(dot)Fontenot(at)bannerhealth(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Database files - personal curiosity
Date: 2003-03-29 03:52:11
Message-ID: 200303290352.h2T3qBg21367@candle.pha.pa.us
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Uh, see /data and the administration chapter on 'disk space', and try
/contrib/oid2name.

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Fontenot, Paul wrote:
> This is more a curiousity of mine than anything else.
>
> In MySQL the database files are housed in directories named for the
> database they belong to and you can see how much disk space they are
> taking up fairly easily. Where does PostgreSQL keep is datafiles and
> more importantly how can I tell how much diskspace it is consuming?
>
> Pardon my ignorance of PostgreSQL, today is my first real attempt at its
> use.
>
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