Since we just had the discussion about index size, I have written a
section for our administration manual that shows ways of finding the
disk usage for specific tables and databases:

	http://candle.pha.pa.us/main/writings/pgsql/sgml/diskusage.html

I also updated README.oid2name to show a sample session that analyzes
disk usage.

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Thu, 13 Jun 2002 02:05:50 -0400 (EDT)
Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>
Documentation on disk usage
It's much easier to use the routines in contrib/dbsize.

> Since we just had the discussion about index size, I have written a
> section for our administration manual that shows ways of finding the
> disk usage for specific tables and databases:
>
> 	http://candle.pha.pa.us/main/writings/pgsql/sgml/diskusage.html
>
> I also updated README.oid2name to show a sample session that analyzes
> disk usage.

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Mon, 17 Jun 2002 23:22:08 +0200 (CEST)
Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>
Re: Documentation on disk usage
Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> It's much easier to use the routines in contrib/dbsize.

Done, though dbsize does not address indexes or TOAST tables.  I have
added documentation to SGML to show how to find these values.


> 
> > Since we just had the discussion about index size, I have written a
> > section for our administration manual that shows ways of finding the
> > disk usage for specific tables and databases:
> >
> > 	http://candle.pha.pa.us/main/writings/pgsql/sgml/diskusage.html
> >
> > I also updated README.oid2name to show a sample session that analyzes
> > disk usage.
> 
> -- 
> Peter Eisentraut   peter_e@gmx.net
> 
> 

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Tue, 25 Jun 2002 13:41:18 -0400 (EDT)
Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>
Re: Documentation on disk usage