Re: [PATCH] psql: \dn+ to show size of each schema (and \dA+ for AMs)

On Fri, Sep 17, 2021 at 12:05:04PM +0200, Pavel Stehule wrote:
> I can live with the proposed patch, and I understand why  ++ was
> introduced. But I am still not sure it is really user friendly. I prefer to
> extend \dA and \dn with some columns (\dA has only two columns and \dn has
> two columns too), and then we don't need special ++ variants for sizes.
> Using three levels of detail looks not too practical (more when the basic
> reports \dA and \dn) are really very simple).

You're suggesting to include the ACL+description in \dn and handler+description
and \dA.

Another option is to add pg_schema_size() and pg_am_size() without shortcuts in
psql.  That would avoid showing a potentially huge ACL when all one wants is
the schema size, and would serve my purposes well enough to write
| SELECT pg_namespace_size(oid), nspname FROM pg_namespace ORDER BY 1 DESC LIMIT 9;

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Justin