Re: Faster way of estimating database size

2018-06-15 Thread hubert depesz lubaczewski
On Fri, Jun 15, 2018 at 10:29:02AM +1000, Sam Saffron wrote: > SELECT pg_database.datname, pg_database_size(pg_database.datname) as > size FROM pg_database Consider reading and using approach shown in https://www.depesz.com/2018/02/17/which-schema-is-using-the-most-disk-space/ Best regards, depe

Re: Faster way of estimating database size

2018-06-15 Thread Fabio Pardi
Hi Sam, When behind a terminal I use \l+ to show the size of the databases, since it is handy to remember. It shows db size in a "pretty size". Timing both commands, i see that \l+ takes more or less the same time your query takes, but I think your query better fits the monitoring purpose. But