Re: [GENERAL] Admin details - disk space used

From: Bruce Momjian <maillist(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Simon Drabble <simon(at)eskimo(dot)com>
Cc: Postgres Group <pgsql-general(at)postgreSQL(dot)org>
Subject: Re: [GENERAL] Admin details - disk space used
Date: 1999-10-28 04:34:39
Message-ID: 199910280434.AAA04644@candle.pha.pa.us
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> Is it possible somehow to get the space taken up by a database on disk? I know
> I can get this as the postgres superuser but it's not particularly clear what
> with system tables and stuff, and of course you have to be the postgres user
> to do it.
>
> It would be nice to be able to do something like
>
> select diskspace();
>
> and have it return the space taken up by each user table.

Just do an 'ls -l' in pgsql/data/base/dbname.

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