Dave Page wrote:
> The attached patch is an update of the dbsize integration patch
> discussed last week. This version includes the following functions:
>
> pg_relation_size(text) - Get relation size by name/schema.name
> pg_relation_size(oid) - Get relation size by OID
> pg_tablespace_size(name) - Get tablespace size by name
> pg_tablespace_size(oid) - Get tablespace size by OID
> pg_database_size(name) - Get database size by name
> pg_database_size(oid) - Get database size by OID
> pg_size_pretty(int8) - Pretty print (and round) the byte size
> specified (eg, 123456 = 121KB)
>
> The only remaining function that last week's brief discussion indicated
> was required is a replacement for total_relation_size() (or
> pg_table_size() as it might now be called). I didn't realise until a few
> minutes ago that this function (which is actually broken because it
> doesn't handle schemas) was only committed a couple of months ago (v1.5,
> http://developer.postgresql.org/cvsweb.cgi/pgsql/contrib/dbsize/dbsize.s
> ql.in) and has therefore never been in a release version.
Uh, do any of these include the index size? TOAST size?
> So should we include this new feature, and if so, how is it best added -
> rewrite in C, or one long line in pg_proc?
I would follow whatever we do in pg_proc now.
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