Re: Disk space occupied by a table in postgresql

aravind chandu <avin_friends(at)yahoo(dot)com> schrieb:

> Hello,
>
> I installed postgresql on linux system, I create a table
> and inserted a large data into the table what I would like to know is how to
> calculate the disk space occupied by the table .Is there any procedure to find
> it out or simply a command .Please give me some suggestion.

You can use the pg_relation_size() - function, described here:
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.3/interactive/functions-admin.html

Andreas
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