On 2020-Aug-30, Tomas Vondra wrote: > On Sat, Aug 29, 2020 at 06:43:47PM -0400, Alvaro Herrera wrote: > > On 2020-Aug-29, Tomas Vondra wrote:
> > > Also, it might be useful to show the size of the statistics built, just > > > like we show for \d+ etc. > > > > \dX+ I suppose? > > Right. I've only used \d+ as an example of an existing command showing > sizes of the objects. Yeah, I understood it that way too. How can you measure the size of the stat objects in a query? Are you thinking in pg_column_size()? I wonder how to report that. Knowing that psql \-commands are not meant for anything other than human consumption, maybe we can use a format() string that says "built: %d bytes" when \dX+ is used (for each stat type), and just "built" when \dX is used. What do people think about this? -- Álvaro Herrera https://www.2ndQuadrant.com/ PostgreSQL Development, 24x7 Support, Remote DBA, Training & Services
