Re: Convenient dump of table and object size in PG 7.4

On Thu, May 26, 2005 at 09:39:26PM -0500, Steve Lane wrote:

> Attached is a view I wrote for postgres 7.4 that seems to provide pretty
> accurate reporting of table sizes. For each non-system table in a database
> it shows base table size, size of any related TOAST data, and aggregate size
> of indexes.
>
> The code is somewhat ugly in that it contains a bunch of CASE statements the
> sole point of which is to transform the occasional NULL into a 0.
>
> Object sizes are computed from pg_class.relpages with an assumed page size
> of 8192.
>
> Comments and improvements most welcome.

You could change all those "CASE WHEN foo IS NULL THEN 0 ELSE foo" into
COALESCE(foo, 0).

Additionally, "show block_size" will give you the block (page) size.  I
don't see how would you use that in a query though.

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