On Sun, Jan 22, 2006 at 12:53:57PM +0000, frank church wrote: > I am trying to work out how much space is taken up by a given > database in the file system. On Unix-like systems a simplistic way is to use "du" on the database directory, which is generally $PGDATA/base/database_oid. You can find the database oid by querying pg_database: SELECT oid, datname FROM pg_database; If you're using alternative locations (pre-8.0) or tablespaces (8.0 and later) then you'll need to take those directories into account. See also "Monitoring Disk Usage" in the documentation: http://www.postgresql.org/docs/7.4/interactive/diskusage.html http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.0/interactive/diskusage.html http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.1/interactive/diskusage.html The contrib/dbsize functions mentioned in 8.0 and earlier have been moved into the backend proper in 8.1. http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.1/interactive/functions-admin.html#FUNCTIONS-ADMIN-DBSIZE -- Michael Fuhr
