From: Scott Marlowe <scott.marlowe@gmail.com>
To: Duan Ligong <l-duan@zd.cnes.jp.nec.com>
Cc: pgsql-admin@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: [Admin]To estimate the size of db
Date: Wed, 21 May 2008 13:08:29 -0600
Message-ID: <dcc563d10805211208l27b6cb1as5951112bf504ffaa@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <004301c8b62b$b183e840$f623480a@nsl.ad.nec.co.jp>
References: <004301c8b62b$b183e840$f623480a@nsl.ad.nec.co.jp>
On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 7:33 PM, Duan Ligong <l-duan@zd.cnes.jp.nec.com> wrote:
>
> Hi, all
>
> Is there a way to estimate the size of the space which a postgresql database
> occupies? or the max size of db?
>
> I know there are a lot of factors, such as the frequency
> of updating, data size, which affects the size of db and it seems difficult
> to estimate it precisely.
There's also the old fashioned way:
sudo su - postgres
cd $PGDATA # or wherever you point with -D on startup
du -sh .
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