Re: [HACKERS] Dbsize backend integration

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: "Dave Page" <dpage(at)vale-housing(dot)co(dot)uk>
Cc: "Dawid Kuroczko" <qnex42(at)gmail(dot)com>, "Andreas Pflug" <pgadmin(at)pse-consulting(dot)de>, "Bruce Momjian" <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>, "PostgreSQL-patches" <pgsql-patches(at)postgresql(dot)org>, "PostgreSQL-development" <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: [HACKERS] Dbsize backend integration
Date: 2005-07-04 13:53:42
Message-ID: 4288.1120485222@sss.pgh.pa.us
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"Dave Page" <dpage(at)vale-housing(dot)co(dot)uk> writes:
> Aside from the fact that's a change to the API that we had settled on,
> it doesn't solve the actual problem of needing a suitable name for a
> function that returns the size of a table /or/ index. pg_relation_size()
> or pg_table_size() can't be used for precisely the reason they were
> rejected for that purpose in the first place.

Rejected by whom? pg_relation_size is an excellent choice for that.

regards, tom lane

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