+1 for fixing this behavior in 9.1. -1 for changing in 9.0, as the change in behavior mid-release will cause more confusion than the incomplete accounting does.
Cheers, David. On Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 06:44:51PM +0100, Bernd Helmle wrote: > It stroke me today again, that \dt+ isn't displaying the acurate > table size for tables, since it uses pg_relation_size() till now. > With having pg_table_size() since PostgreSQL 9.0 available, i > believe it would be more useful to have the total acquired storage > displayed, including implicit objects (the mentioned case where it > was not very useful atm was a table with a big TOAST table). > > Attached minor patch extends \dt to use pg_table_size() starting > with PostgreSQL 9.0, not sure if we backport such changes though. It > would be interesting for 9.1, however. > > -- > Thanks > > Bernd > > -- > Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) > To make changes to your subscription: > http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers -- David Fetter <da...@fetter.org> http://fetter.org/ Phone: +1 415 235 3778 AIM: dfetter666 Yahoo!: dfetter Skype: davidfetter XMPP: david.fet...@gmail.com iCal: webcal://www.tripit.com/feed/ical/people/david74/tripit.ics Remember to vote! Consider donating to Postgres: http://www.postgresql.org/about/donate -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
