Thread: how much free space in tables and index ?

Hi,

When tuples are deleted, there remains free space in table and index
files.
Is it possible to know for each table and index how much free space it
contains ?

Thanks

On Fri, Sep 22, 2006 at 02:11:40AM -0700, maa1666@yahoo.fr wrote:
> When tuples are deleted, there remains free space in table and index
> files.
> Is it possible to know for each table and index how much free space it
> contains ?

For tables see the contrib/pgstattuple module.

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Michael Fuhr

Michael Fuhr wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 22, 2006 at 02:11:40AM -0700, maa1666@yahoo.fr wrote:
> > When tuples are deleted, there remains free space in table and index
> > files.
> > Is it possible to know for each table and index how much free space it
> > contains ?
>
> For tables see the contrib/pgstattuple module.

And that will work for indexes in 8.2.

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