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Tips N’ Tricks – getting sizes of relations without locks

If you have production DB servers, chances are you're running variant of these queries:

SELECT sum(pg_relation_size(oid)) from pg_class where relkind = 'i'
SELECT sum(pg_relation_size(oid)) from pg_class where relkind = 'r'

To get summarized size of tables and/or indexes in your database (for example for graphing purposes).

This (getting pg_relation_size for rows in pg_class) has one problem – it can lock, or it can fail.

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Waiting for 9.0 – table and index sizes

On 19th of January Tom Lane committed really brilliant patch:

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Add pg_table_size() and pg_indexes_size() to provide more user-friendly
wrappers around the pg_relation_size() function.
 
Bernd Helmle, reviewed by Greg Smith

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Tips N’ Tricks – getting sizes of relations without locks

Waiting for 9.0 – table and index sizes