| From: | Erik Jones <erik(at)myemma(dot)com> |
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| To: | lak <lakindia89(at)gmail(dot)com> |
| Cc: | pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: Table size |
| Date: | 2008-03-21 16:27:16 |
| Message-ID: | 7224B23D-6BF7-440D-8454-B4245C160107@myemma.com |
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On Mar 21, 2008, at 4:33 AM, lak wrote:
> I have two questions.
> How can I enter comments into a table? Where the comments are stored?
Comments are created with the COMMENT sql command and, in pg, are
stored in pg_description.
> In psql How can I know the size of a single table?
pg_relation_size()
Often called as pg_size_pretty(pg_relation_size('some_table')) for
more readable output.
Use pg_total_relation_size() for the size with indexes and toast tables.
Erik Jones
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