Re: psql \dt and table size

+1 for fixing this behavior in 9.1. -1 for changing in 9.0, as the
change in behavior mid-release will cause more confusion than the
incomplete accounting does.

Cheers,
David.
On Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 06:44:51PM +0100, Bernd Helmle wrote:
> It stroke me today again, that \dt+ isn't displaying the acurate
> table size for tables, since it uses pg_relation_size() till now.
> With having pg_table_size() since PostgreSQL 9.0 available, i
> believe it would be more useful to have the total acquired storage
> displayed, including implicit objects (the mentioned case where it
> was not very useful atm was a table with a big TOAST table).
>
> Attached minor patch extends \dt to use pg_table_size() starting
> with PostgreSQL 9.0, not sure if we backport such changes though. It
> would be interesting for 9.1, however.
>
> --
> Thanks
>
> Bernd

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