Re: [Gnumed-devel] Help menu > A bout database … size

[Karsten Hilbert]

On Thu, Aug 01, 2013 at 09:33:21PM +0000, Jim Busser wrote:

> Unless there is some reason to withhold, from regular users, to be able to 
> know the size of the database, can we include in the display provided by
> 
>       Help > About database
> 
> a line (perhaps below 'database' and above 'server')
> 
> as this is helpful to quickly know for backup and restoration purposes.

Easily done but it gives no indication whatsoever of the
size of a backup.

Space needed for restoration will be the size of the backup
plus some slack plus the in-PostgreSQL database size which
one won't know at the time of restoration.

Karsten
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