A very handy way to estimate the on-disk size of your databases in PostgreSQL:

> SELECT datname,pg_size_pretty(pg_database_size(datname)) FROM pg_database;
    datname    | pg_size_pretty
---------------+----------------
 template1     | 4144 kB
 template0     | 4144 kB

And the same for individual tables:

> SELECT tablename,pg_size_pretty(pg_total_relation_size(tablename))
    FROM pg_tables WHERE schemaname NOT IN ('information_schema','pg_catalog');

         tablename          | pg_size_pretty
----------------------------+----------------
 django_content_type        | 40 kB
 django_session             | 152 kB
 django_site                | 24 kB

Now go and bug your application developers to save your resources.

posted at 10:20 | path: /unix | permanent link to this entry