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| author | Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> | 2002-02-22 23:05:35 +0000 |
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| committer | Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> | 2002-02-22 23:05:35 +0000 |
| commit | ad0787b2bd3403f0c14c72a9ea2e13501f90b7d3 (patch) | |
| tree | 5461119bd871534af3f48f05f5efb7041314516c /contrib/dbsize/README.dbsize | |
| parent | 40bda4cbc4079c196090968f02fce58ed2274c55 (diff) | |
| download | postgresql-ad0787b2bd3403f0c14c72a9ea2e13501f90b7d3.tar.gz | |
I've written on like that a while ago:
http://webmail.postgresql.org/~petere/dbsize.html
The tarball can be rolled into contrib -- now that I think of it I don't
know why I never did that.
Never imagined this would have anything to do with that TODO item,
though.
I figured oid2name accomplished that.
Peter Eisentraut peter_e@gmx.net
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diff --git a/contrib/dbsize/README.dbsize b/contrib/dbsize/README.dbsize new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..879341cd02 --- /dev/null +++ b/contrib/dbsize/README.dbsize @@ -0,0 +1,11 @@ +This module contains two functions that report the size of a given +database or relation. E.g., + +SELECT database_size('template1'); +SELECT relation_size('pg_class'); + +These functions report the actual file system space. Thus, users can +avoid digging through the details of the database directories. + +Copy this directory to contrib/dbsize in your PostgreSQL source tree. +Then just run make; make install. |