Re: db size reporting

jeff sacksteder wrote:

> I'm going to be working with some rather large datasets and I want to
> evaluate the effects of normalization/denormalization on disk space.
> Is there a simple way to find the size on disk of a specific database?
> To do so with the operating system is rather crude, since it know
> nothing about what proportion of the cluster area is allocated for
> each database.

look for the dbsize utils in the contrib.

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