Re: frustration with database size <long>

Thomas F.O'Connell <tfo@monsterlabs.com>

From: "Thomas F. O'Connell" <tfo@monsterlabs.com>
To: pgsql-general@postgresql.org
Date: 2002-01-21T20:40:08Z
Lists: pgsql-general
> An easy way to get some data is to do a VACUUM so that the relpages
> statistics are up to date, and then do
> 
> select relname,relkind,relpages from pg_class order by relpages desc;


well, that certainly is data. but what does it mean?

what does this query actually spell out?

to what do relkind and relpages refere?

just curious.

thanks!

-tfo