Alvaro Herrera wrote: > Tom Lane wrote: > > Greg Smith <greg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > > > Florian Weimer wrote: > > >> The sizes displayed by \dt+ in version 8.4.2 do not take TOAST tables > > >> into account, presumably because the pg_relation_size does not reflect > > >> that, either. I think this is a bit surprising. From a user > > >> perspective, these are part of the table storage (I understand that > > >> the indices might be a different story, but TOAST table are a fairly > > >> deep implementation detail and should perhaps be hidden here). > > > > > As of last week there's a new pg_table_size available that does what you > > > want here: > > > http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-committers/2010-01/msg00288.php > > > > > I don't believe \dt+ has been updated yet to use that though; that's > > > worth considering for a minute, not sure anybody thought about it yet. > > > > We could only use pg_table_size against a backend >= 9.0, which would > > mean that the displayed results mean something different depending on > > which backend version psql is being used with. That's not necessarily > > a deal-breaker, but it does seem a bit evil. > > Perhaps we can emulate pg_table_size on earlier server versions, using a > query which provides the sum of table plus toast items. It would be a > bit slower, but the normal case of using the same server version would > be fast. Added to TODO: Consider showing TOAST and index sizes in \dt+ * http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-general/2010-01/msg00912.php -- Bruce Momjian <bruce@xxxxxxxxxx> http://momjian.us EnterpriseDB http://enterprisedb.com + If your life is a hard drive, Christ can be your backup. + -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general
