Hans Guijt <hg@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > I have a Postgres 9.3.7 database, freshly created on Ubuntu 14 LTS 64 bit, and at this time almost completely empty. I'm attempting to find the size of a table, using the following code: > SELECT > pg_relation_size (stat.relid), > CASE WHEN cl.reltoastrelid = 0 THEN > 0 > ELSE > pg_relation_size (cl.reltoastrelid) + COALESCE (( > SELECT SUM (pg_relation_size (indexrelid)) FROM pg_index WHERE indrelid=cl.reltoastrelid > ), 0)::int8 > END, > COALESCE ((SELECT SUM (pg_relation_size (indexrelid)) FROM pg_index WHERE indrelid=stat.relid), 0)::int8 > FROM pg_stat_all_tables stat > JOIN pg_class cl ON cl.oid=stat.relid > JOIN pg_namespace ns ON cl.relnamespace=ns.oid > WHERE UPPER (cl.relname) = UPPER ('sensor') > AND UPPER (ns.nspname) = UPPER ('devtest') Getting rid of the useless join to pg_stat_all_tables would probably help; there's a lot of computation in that view. regards, tom lane -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general