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')
> 
>       size:   SELECT 
> to_char(pg_database_size(current_database())/(1024*1024*1024.00)::real, 
> '9,999,999,999D9') || ' Gb'
> 
> as this is helpful to quickly know for backup and restoration purposes.

Given that the on-disk, in-PostgreSQL database size is
already logged -- and it doesn't help with figuring out
backup sizes -- I don't yet see the value of showing it to
users.

Karsten
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