Guillaume, I read your answer for first question but It's not clear to me. The table has a column and index also use that column. so in that example, I think table size and index size should be equal. Why these are not equal?
Your answer for second question is pretty clear. Thanks for your both of answers.
Steven, thanks for your response. I got a new information thanks to you.
I have some questions about calculating table and index size.
I have a dummy table which has an integer column and its index. The table has 1400000 rows and all of rows are same thats value is 20000000. Table size is 50MB and index size is 31MB. Why there is too much size difference between table and its index? what happen on data files when we add index?
You have metadata informations in the table datafiles that you don't have on the index datafiles. For example, all the system columns for each line.
Second question is that after created table, table size was 0 byte. I inserted a row as 120 then table size was 8192 byte. I inserted five times same value to the table and table size is still 8192 bytes. Table size changed after inserted lots of rows. Table size was stabile till first few hundred rows. why table size didn't change when I inserted lots of rows?
PostgreSQL works with 8KB blocks. When you insert a line, it puts it on a block, but this block may contain many lines. So your next new lines still fit in the first block... until it doesn't, and you'll see a new block coming, making your table datafile grows to 16KB. And so on and so on.