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Re: Disk space occupied by a table in postgresql

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On Sat, 2008-08-09 at 04:59 -0400, Fouad Zaryouh wrote:
> Hi Aravind,
> 
> Run the following query
> 
> SELECT relname, reltuples, relpages * 8 / 1024 AS "MB" FROM pg_class
> ORDER BY relpages DESC;
> 
> 
> 
> relname = table name
> relpages = size in MB
> reltuples = number of rows.
> 
> Hope this help.
> 
> 
> 
> Fouad Zaryouh
> 
> http://www.flipcore.com
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On Sat, Aug 9, 2008 at 3:18 AM, aravind chandu
> <avin_friends@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>         Hello,
>         
>                             I installed postgresql on linux system, I
>         create a table and inserted a large data into the table what I
>         would like to know is how to calculate the disk space occupied
>         by the table .Is there any procedure to find it out or simply
>         a command .Please give me some suggestion.
>         
>         
>         Thank You,
>         Avin.
>         
>         
>         
> 

This may be of use in recent versions...
select pg_size_pretty(pg_database_size('table_name'))


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