Postgres DB Size Command

What is the command to find the size of all the databases?

I am able to find the size of a specific database by using following command:

select pg_database_size('databaseName');

You can enter the following psql meta-command to get some details about a specified database, including its size:

\l+ <database_name>

And to get sizes of all databases (that you can connect to):

\l+

You can get the names of all the databases that you can connect to from the "pg_datbase" system table. Just apply the function to the names, as below.

select t1.datname AS db_name,  
       pg_size_pretty(pg_database_size(t1.datname)) as db_size
from pg_database t1
order by pg_database_size(t1.datname) desc;

If you intend the output to be consumed by a machine instead of a human, you can cut the pg_size_pretty() function.


-- Database Size
SELECT pg_size_pretty(pg_database_size('Database Name'));
-- Table Size
SELECT pg_size_pretty(pg_relation_size('table_name'));

Based on the answer here by @Hendy Irawan

Show database sizes:

\l+

e.g.

=> \l+
 berbatik_prd_commerce    | berbatik_prd     | UTF8     | en_US.UTF-8 | en_US.UTF-8 |                       | 19 MB   | pg_default | 
 berbatik_stg_commerce    | berbatik_stg     | UTF8     | en_US.UTF-8 | en_US.UTF-8 |                       | 8633 kB | pg_default | 
 bursasajadah_prd         | bursasajadah_prd | UTF8     | en_US.UTF-8 | en_US.UTF-8 |                       | 1122 MB | pg_default | 

Show table sizes:

\d+

e.g.

=> \d+
 public | tuneeca_prd | table | tomcat | 8192 bytes | 
 public | tuneeca_stg | table | tomcat | 1464 kB    | 

Only works in psql.


Yes, there is a command to find the size of a database in Postgres. It's the following:

SELECT pg_database.datname as "database_name", pg_size_pretty(pg_database_size(pg_database.datname)) AS size_in_mb FROM pg_database ORDER by size_in_mb DESC;