On Sun, 29 Aug 2004, Andreas Pflug wrote:
> The current implementation of dbsize doesn't handle tables in
> tablespaces correctly, and is quite restricted on objects covered (only
> tables and databases, but not tablespaces and indexes).
>
> The attached patch contributes:
>
> - database_size(name)
> - relation_size(text)
I sent in a dbsize patch to make these functions tablespace aware...
> These are the well-known functions, tablespace-aware.
>
> - pg_tablespace_size(oid)
> - pg_database_size(oid)
> - pg_relation_size(oid)
> Tablespace-aware implementations, used by the upper functions.
> pg_relation_size will report sizes of indexes as well.
>
> - pg_size_pretty(bigint)
> Formatting of sizes, to display '146MB' instead of '152885668'
Nice.
Gavin