Is there any possible way to do a SQL query to return some sort of
representation of how large the entire db is? Or even how large a single
table is?


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See the administration chapter of the docs on analyzing disk space.

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Hi,

On Fri, 30 Apr 2004 Christopher.Becker (AT) apcc (DOT) com wrote:

See contrib/dbsize

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If you install the dbsize extension in the contrib directory for the source
code, then you can run queries like this

SELECT database_size('my_database');
SELECT relation_size('my_table');

HTH

adam



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