From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Jeff Janes <jeff.janes@gmail.com>
cc: AJ Weber <aweber@comcast.net>,
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Subject: Re: Partition table in 9.0.x?
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Comments: In-reply-to Jeff Janes <jeff.janes@gmail.com>
	message dated "Tue, 08 Jan 2013 09:21:42 -0800"
Date: Tue, 08 Jan 2013 12:51:40 -0500
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Jeff Janes <jeff.janes@gmail.com> writes:
> On Tue, Jan 8, 2013 at 8:45 AM, AJ Weber <aweber@comcast.net> wrote:
>> 
>> \d+ doesn't appear to display any size information.

> It does if you use it without an argument, to display all the tables
> in the search path:

> jjanes=# \d+
>                          List of relations
>  Schema |       Name       | Type  | Owner  |  Size   | Description
> --------+------------------+-------+--------+---------+-------------
>  public | pgbench_accounts | table | jjanes | 128 MB  |
>  public | pgbench_branches | table | jjanes | 40 kB   |
>  public | pgbench_history  | table | jjanes | 0 bytes |
>  public | pgbench_tellers  | table | jjanes | 40 kB   |
> (4 rows)

> It rather annoys me that you actually get less information (no size,
> no owner) when you use \d+ on a named table.  I don't know if there is
> a reason for that feature, or if it was just an oversight.

This is actually an abbreviation for \dtisv+, which is a completely
different command from "\d table".  You can use something like
"\dt+ table-pattern" to get a display of the above form for a subset
of tables.  I agree it ain't too consistent.

			regards, tom lane


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