less than 1 minute read

I’ll often times use \d or \dt to check out the tables in my database. This shows the schema, object name, object type (e.g. table), and owner for each.

By adding the + to that meta-command, I can also see the disk usage for each database object.

Here is an example of look at all tables in a database with the additional Size (or disk usage) information:

> \dt+
                              List of relations
 Schema |        Name        | Type  |   Owner    |    Size    | Description
--------+--------------------+-------+------------+------------+-------------
 public | amount_types       | table | jbranchaud | 16 kB      |
 public | ingredient_amounts | table | jbranchaud | 8192 bytes |
 public | ingredient_types   | table | jbranchaud | 16 kB      |
 public | ingredients        | table | jbranchaud | 48 kB      |
 public | recipes            | table | jbranchaud | 16 kB      |
 public | schema_migrations  | table | jbranchaud | 16 kB      |
 public | users              | table | jbranchaud | 16 kB      |

Via jbranchaud/til.

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