Re: ]To estimate the size of db

Hi, Scott

Thanks for your reply.

> There's also the old fashioned way:

I mean I want to estimate the size of the space which the db will occupy.
Now there is no db.

> sudo su - postgres
> cd $PGDATA  # or wherever you point with -D on startup
> du -sh .

Regards
Duan
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Scott Marlowe" <scott.marlowe@gmail.com>
To: "Duan Ligong" <l-duan@zd.cnes.jp.nec.com>
Cc: <pgsql-admin@postgresql.org>
Sent: Thursday, May 22, 2008 4:08 AM
Subject: Re: [ADMIN] [Admin]To estimate the size of db


> On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 7:33 PM, Duan Ligong <l-duan@zd.cnes.jp.nec.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> Hi, all
>>
>> Is there a way to estimate the size of the space which a postgresql
>> database
>> occupies? or the max size of db?
>>
>> I know there are a lot of factors, such as the frequency
>> of updating, data size, which affects the size of db and it seems
>> difficult
>> to estimate it precisely.
>
> There's also the old fashioned way:
>
> sudo su - postgres
> cd $PGDATA  # or wherever you point with -D on startup
> du -sh .
>
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