Re: Measuring relation free space

On 11/08/2011 05:07 PM, Robert Treat wrote:
> It's already easy to get "good enough" numbers based on user space
> tools with very little overhead, so I think it's more important that
> the server side tool be accurate rather than fast.

What user space method do you consider good enough here?  I haven't 
found any approximation that I was really happy with; wouldn't have 
bothered with this otherwise.

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