Re: Dbsize backend integration

From: Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Dave Page <dpage(at)vale-housing(dot)co(dot)uk>
Cc: PostgreSQL-patches <pgsql-patches(at)postgresql(dot)org>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Dbsize backend integration
Date: 2005-06-29 11:45:44
Message-ID: 200506291145.j5TBjis29145@candle.pha.pa.us
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Dave Page wrote:
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> -----Original Message----- From: Bruce Momjian
> [mailto:pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us] Sent: Wed 6/29/2005 2:16 AM To: Dave
> Page Cc: PostgreSQL-patches; PostgreSQL-development Subject: Re:
> [PATCHES] Dbsize backend integration
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> > OK, so you went with relation as heap/index/toast only, and table as the
> > total of them. I am not sure that makes sense because we usually equate
> > relation with table, and an index isn't a relation, really.
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> Err, yes - posted that before I got your reply!
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> > Do we have to use pg_object_size? Is there a better name? Are
> > indexes/toasts even objects?
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> Yeah, I think perhaps pg_object_size is better in some ways than
> pg_relation_size, however I stuck with relation because (certainly in
> pgAdmin world) we tend to think of pretty much anything as an object.
> I could go either way on that though, however Michael doesn't seem so
> keen.
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> So, one for pg_object_size, one on the fench and one against :-). Anyone
> else got a preference?

I have a new idea --- pg_storage_size(). That would do just the
toast/index/heap, and pg_relation_size() gets a total of them all, and
only works on heap, no index or toast.

How is that?

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