Re: select results on pg_class incomplete

On 3/15/24 03:42, Thiemo Kellner wrote:
>> You solve a problem that no one has. Data belonging together may still 
>> be divided into schemas in a database. Thus, the metadata is also 
>> reported and archived individually per database.
> 
> I am not sure, we are taking about the same problem, but would be 
> surprised to be the only one having experienced filling disks. Maybe, I 
> am just that old already that disk space has become so cheep, the 
> problem does not exist any longer.
> 
> With respect to metadata and databases: The point is not that I cannot 
> see the tables in another schema (I believe, did not check yet), but in 
> other databases. While this actually does not matter much, I still hold 

That is backwards, schemas are namespaces within a database you can see 
their contents from the local(database) system catalogs.

> it true that a disk getting filled up does not care in which database or 
> schema a explosively growing table resides. So, if I have a disk getting 
> filled up, I would like to get easily information on the problematic 
> structures in one go. With PostgreSQL this does not seem to be possible 
> out of the box. I now can query each database separately, or I can 
> create auxiliary structures like dblink and views to accommodate for a 
> "single" query solution. My two dimes.
> 
> 

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Adrian Klaver
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