Re: Server instrumentation for 8.1

On Wed, May 11, 2005 at 04:44:21PM +0000, Andreas Pflug wrote:
> There's still a lengthy discussion going on whether it's a good idea to 
> add a forth way to read pgsql's schema (pg_* tables, pg_* views, 
> information_schema, did I miss one?), but I'd like to see helper 
> functions for issues *not* covered in the core package.
> 
> - dbsize has been in contrib for a long time, though it appears to me as 
> quite a basic functionality to find out about storage needs.

FWIW, I believe the new system views cover all the dbsize cases.
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