\db+ and \l+ show sizes of tablespaces and databases, so I was surprised in the past that \dn+ didn't show sizes of schemas. I would find that somewhat convenient, and I assume other people would use it even more useful.
\db+ and \l+ seem to walk the filesystem, and this is distinguished from those cases. (Also, schemas are per-DB, not global). Maybe it's an issue if \dn+ is slow and expensive, since that's how to display ACL. But \db+ has the same issue. Maybe there should be a \db++ and \dn++ to allow \dn+ to showing the ACL but not the size. pg_relation_size() only includes one fork, and the other functions include toast, which should be in its separate schema, so it has to be summed across forks. postgres=# \dnS+ child | postgres | | | 946 MB information_schema | postgres | postgres=UC/postgres+| | 88 kB | | =U/postgres | | pg_catalog | postgres | postgres=UC/postgres+| system catalog schema | 42 MB | | =U/postgres | | pg_toast | postgres | | reserved schema for TOAST tables | 3908 MB public | postgres | postgres=UC/postgres+| standard public schema | 5627 MB | | =UC/postgres | | >From c2d68eb54f785c759253d4100460aa1af9cbc676 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Justin Pryzby <pryz...@telsasoft.com> Date: Tue, 13 Jul 2021 21:25:48 -0500 Subject: [PATCH] psql: \dn+ to show size of each schema.. See also: 358a897fa, 528ac10c7 --- src/bin/psql/describe.c | 5 +++++ 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+) diff --git a/src/bin/psql/describe.c b/src/bin/psql/describe.c index 2abf255798..6b9b6ea34a 100644 --- a/src/bin/psql/describe.c +++ b/src/bin/psql/describe.c @@ -5036,6 +5036,11 @@ listSchemas(const char *pattern, bool verbose, bool showSystem) appendPQExpBuffer(&buf, ",\n pg_catalog.obj_description(n.oid, 'pg_namespace') AS \"%s\"", gettext_noop("Description")); + + appendPQExpBuffer(&buf, + ",\n (SELECT pg_catalog.pg_size_pretty(sum(pg_relation_size(oid,fork))) FROM pg_catalog.pg_class c,\n" + " (VALUES('main'),('fsm'),('vm'),('init')) AS fork(fork) WHERE c.relnamespace = n.oid) AS \"%s\"", + gettext_noop("Size")); } appendPQExpBufferStr(&buf, -- 2.17.0