2009/12/15 Guillaume Lelarge <guilla...@lelarge.info> > Le mardi 15 décembre 2009 à 00:04:47, Evan Rempel a écrit : > > Is there a command/tool that will report on how FULL a table is getting? > > If there is, how intrusive is it? How computationally heavy is it? > > > > We have a database that is approx 100 million rows with > > approx 2 million insert/updates per day. Each day old data > > is purged from the database. The end result is a mostly static > > footprint with regards to disk space used, but I would like to > > know how much room is usable inside the tables as well as the > > OS file system (that part is easy). > > > > pgstattuple contrib module give such an information. But it requires an > exclusive lock on the table it's looking at, so it's quite intrusive. For > more > details, the 8.4 documentation is interesting: > http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.4/interactive/pgstattuple.html > > That doc specifically says that it takes only a read lock.
Best regards, -- Lets call it Postgres EnterpriseDB http://www.enterprisedb.com gurjeet.si...@enterprisedb.com singh.gurj...@{ gmail | hotmail | yahoo }.com Twitter: singh_gurjeet Skype: singh_gurjeet Mail sent from my BlackLaptop device
