| From: | Gavin Sherry <swm(at)linuxworld(dot)com(dot)au> |
|---|---|
| To: | Andreas Pflug <pgadmin(at)pse-consulting(dot)de> |
| Cc: | PostgreSQL Patches <pgsql-patches(at)postgresql(dot)org>, Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> |
| Subject: | Re: dbsize contrib |
| Date: | 2004-08-29 19:56:25 |
| Message-ID: | Pine.LNX.4.58.0408300555460.5698@linuxworld.com.au |
| Views: | Raw Message | Whole Thread | Download mbox | Resend email |
| Thread: | |
| Lists: | pgsql-patches |
On Sun, 29 Aug 2004, Andreas Pflug wrote:
> The current implementation of dbsize doesn't handle tables in
> tablespaces correctly, and is quite restricted on objects covered (only
> tables and databases, but not tablespaces and indexes).
>
> The attached patch contributes:
>
> - database_size(name)
> - relation_size(text)
I sent in a dbsize patch to make these functions tablespace aware...
> These are the well-known functions, tablespace-aware.
>
> - pg_tablespace_size(oid)
> - pg_database_size(oid)
> - pg_relation_size(oid)
> Tablespace-aware implementations, used by the upper functions.
> pg_relation_size will report sizes of indexes as well.
>
> - pg_size_pretty(bigint)
> Formatting of sizes, to display '146MB' instead of '152885668'
Nice.
Gavin
| From | Date | Subject | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Next Message | Andreas Pflug | 2004-08-29 21:53:54 | Re: log_filename_prefix --> log_filename + strftime() |
| Previous Message | Tom Lane | 2004-08-29 19:25:09 | Re: log_filename_prefix --> log_filename + strftime() |