| From: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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| To: | Jeff Janes <jeff(dot)janes(at)gmail(dot)com> |
| Cc: | Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>, Pavel Stehule <pavel(dot)stehule(at)gmail(dot)com>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: proposal - psql - show longest tables |
| Date: | 2013-07-22 23:37:00 |
| Message-ID: | 29128.1374536220@sss.pgh.pa.us |
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Jeff Janes <jeff(dot)janes(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
> Is looking for the biggest tables a common enough thing that it should
> be available to everyone, without needing custom customization?
I don't really think so. It's surely not much harder than
select relname, pg_relation_size(oid) from pg_class order by 2 desc;
Moreover, the people who need this likely don't need it as a psql
command, but rather as something available to monitoring tools.
regards, tom lane
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