Re: [HACKERS] Dbsize backend integration

Tom Lane wrote:
> "Dave Page" <dpage@vale-housing.co.uk> writes:
> > Aside from the fact that's a change to the API that we had settled on,
> > it doesn't solve the actual problem of needing a suitable name for a
> > function that returns the size of a table /or/ index. pg_relation_size()
> > or pg_table_size() can't be used for precisely the reason they were
> > rejected for that purpose in the first place.
>
> Rejected by whom?  pg_relation_size is an excellent choice for that.

We mostly tell people that table and relation are synonmous.  Though
there is a distinction, it seems error-prone to rely on that distinction
in the API.

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