Disk usage

On 8 May 2003 at 12:41, Daniel Lublin wrote:

Good day.

I am wondering if there is some utility for postgresql, which can
display the amount of disk space that a database (and possibly even
more finer grained; a table) occupies?

du in $PGDATA coupled with oid2name to figure out what is the object you are
lookng at.

HTH

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"Shridhar Daithankar" <shridhar_daithankar@persistent.co.in> writes:

On 8 May 2003 at 12:41, Daniel Lublin wrote:

I am wondering if there is some utility for postgresql, which can
display the amount of disk space that a database (and possibly even
more finer grained; a table) occupies?

du in $PGDATA coupled with oid2name to figure out what is the object you are
lookng at.

Or do

vacuum;
select relname, relpages * 8 from pg_class;

to get table sizes in kilobytes. relpages is not updated on-the-fly,
only by vacuum, so you need to have done vacuum recently to get
trustworthy numbers.

regards, tom lane

On 2003.05.08 04:12 Shridhar Daithankar wrote:

On 8 May 2003 at 12:41, Daniel Lublin wrote:

Good day.

I am wondering if there is some utility for postgresql, which can
display the amount of disk space that a database (and possibly even
more finer grained; a table) occupies?

du in $PGDATA coupled with oid2name to figure out what is the object you
are
lookng at.

HTH

Thanks, I found that helpful.

One question though is about the transaction log files on the px_log
directory I have two huge files totalling about 30 meg. One thing I'm
working on is figuring out how much disk usage I'll have for our data
compared to what we are using now. I'm wondering if I should count those
two files and if there is a way of eliminating them if they ever become not
needed

Thanks

Take care,
Jay

On Thu, 8 May 2003, Jay O'Connor wrote:

On 2003.05.08 04:12 Shridhar Daithankar wrote:

On 8 May 2003 at 12:41, Daniel Lublin wrote:

Good day.

I am wondering if there is some utility for postgresql, which can
display the amount of disk space that a database (and possibly even
more finer grained; a table) occupies?

du in $PGDATA coupled with oid2name to figure out what is the object you
are
lookng at.

HTH

Thanks, I found that helpful.

One question though is about the transaction log files on the px_log
directory I have two huge files totalling about 30 meg. One thing I'm
working on is figuring out how much disk usage I'll have for our data
compared to what we are using now. I'm wondering if I should count those
two files and if there is a way of eliminating them if they ever become not
needed

That's the write ahead logging system. It isn't optional, so it won't
ever not be needed. But, you can change how big they are by playing with
the WAL settings in the $PGDATA/postgresql.conf file.

http://www.postgresql.org/docs/view.php?version=7.3&amp;idoc=0&amp;file=runtime-config.html#RUNTIME-CONFIG-WAL

On Thu, May 08, 2003 at 10:39:48AM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:

Or do

vacuum;
select relname, relpages * 8 from pg_class;

to get table sizes in kilobytes. relpages is not updated on-the-fly,
only by vacuum, so you need to have done vacuum recently to get
trustworthy numbers.

Doesn't ANALYZE update relpages values?

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Alvaro Herrera wrote:

On Thu, May 08, 2003 at 10:39:48AM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:

Or do

vacuum;
select relname, relpages * 8 from pg_class;

to get table sizes in kilobytes. relpages is not updated on-the-fly,
only by vacuum, so you need to have done vacuum recently to get
trustworthy numbers.

Doesn't ANALYZE update relpages values?

Yes, vacuum and analyze do it. There is a 'monitoring disk space'
section in the 7.3 docs too.

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