Postgres DB Size Command

Question

What is the command to find the size of all the databases?

I am able to find the size of a specific database by using following command:

Answer 1

You can enter the following psql meta-command to get some details about a specified database, including its size:

\l+ <database_name>

And to get sizes of all databases (that you can connect to):

\l+

Answer 2

Yes, there is a command to find the size of a database in Postgres. It's the following:

SELECT pg_database.datname as "database_name", pg_size_pretty(pg_database_size(pg_database.datname)) AS size_in_mb FROM pg_database ORDER by size_in_mb DESC;

Answer 3

You can use below query to find the size of all databases of PostgreSQL.

Reference is taken from this blog.

SELECT 
    datname AS DatabaseName
    ,pg_catalog.pg_get_userbyid(datdba) AS OwnerName
    ,CASE 
        WHEN pg_catalog.has_database_privilege(datname, 'CONNECT')
        THEN pg_catalog.pg_size_pretty(pg_catalog.pg_database_size(datname))
        ELSE 'No Access For You'
    END AS DatabaseSize
FROM pg_catalog.pg_database
ORDER BY 
    CASE 
        WHEN pg_catalog.has_database_privilege(datname, 'CONNECT')
        THEN pg_catalog.pg_database_size(datname)
        ELSE NULL
    END DESC;

Answer 4

du -k /var/lib/postgresql/ |sort -n |tail

Answer 5

Based on the answer here by @Hendy Irawan

Show database sizes:

\l+

e.g.

=> \l+
 berbatik_prd_commerce    | berbatik_prd     | UTF8     | en_US.UTF-8 | en_US.UTF-8 |                       | 19 MB   | pg_default | 
 berbatik_stg_commerce    | berbatik_stg     | UTF8     | en_US.UTF-8 | en_US.UTF-8 |                       | 8633 kB | pg_default | 
 bursasajadah_prd         | bursasajadah_prd | UTF8     | en_US.UTF-8 | en_US.UTF-8 |                       | 1122 MB | pg_default | 

Show table sizes:

\d+

e.g.

=> \d+
 public | tuneeca_prd | table | tomcat | 8192 bytes | 
 public | tuneeca_stg | table | tomcat | 1464 kB    | 

Only works in psql.

Answer 6

From the PostgreSQL wiki.

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_{NOTE: Databases to which the user cannot connect are sorted as if they were infinite size.}

SELECT d.datname AS Name,  pg_catalog.pg_get_userbyid(d.datdba) AS Owner,
    CASE WHEN pg_catalog.has_database_privilege(d.datname, 'CONNECT')
        THEN pg_catalog.pg_size_pretty(pg_catalog.pg_database_size(d.datname))
        ELSE 'No Access'
    END AS Size
FROM pg_catalog.pg_database d
    ORDER BY
    CASE WHEN pg_catalog.has_database_privilege(d.datname, 'CONNECT')
        THEN pg_catalog.pg_database_size(d.datname)
        ELSE NULL
    END DESC -- nulls first
    LIMIT 20

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The page also has snippets for finding the size of your biggest relations and largest tables.