PostgreSQL Datatypes

SQL datatypes and internal datatypes

SQL type	Internal type
smallint	int8
int	int32
bigint	int64

PostgreSQL : Get total pages of an object

SELECT pg_relation_size(<object_id>, 'main')/8192);

The pg_relation_size gives the disk space occupied by the object. Since each page is of 8kB, the pg_relation_size size is divided by 8192 to give the page count.

Vim - Highlight OverLength

Add the following code to /etc/vimrc if we want to highlight the characters that go beyond column 80.

highlight OverLength ctermbg=red ctermfg=white guibg=#592929

match OverLength /\%81v.\+ 

PostgreSQL : Data Object sizes

 Size of User Tables

=# SELECT
   relname as "Table",
   pg_size_pretty(pg_total_relation_size(relid)) as "Total Size",
   pg_size_pretty(pg_relation_size(relid)) as "Relation Size",
   pg_size_pretty(pg_total_relation_size(relid) - pg_relation_size(relid)) as "External Size"
   FROM pg_catalog.pg_statio_user_tables ORDER BY pg_total_relation_size(relid) DESC
;
      Table       | Total Size | Relation Size | External Size
------------------+------------+---------------+---------------
 load_test        | 1883 MB    | 1776 MB       | 107 MB
 pgbench_accounts | 1121 MB    | 961 MB        | 161 MB
 pgbench_history  | 8656 kB    | 8656 kB       | 0 bytes
 pgbench_tellers  | 80 kB      | 40 kB         | 40 kB
 pgbench_branches | 24 kB      | 8192 bytes    | 16 kB
(5 rows)

 Size of User Indexes

=# SELECT
   indexrelname as "Index",
   pg_size_pretty(pg_total_relation_size(indexrelid)) as "Size",
   pg_size_pretty(pg_total_relation_size(indexrelid) - pg_relation_size(indexrelid)) as "External Size"
   FROM pg_catalog.pg_statio_user_indexes ORDER BY pg_total_relation_size(indexrelid) DESC;
         Index         |  Size  | External Size
-----------------------+--------+---------------
 pgbench_accounts_pkey | 161 MB | 0 bytes
 load_testidx          | 107 MB | 0 bytes
 pgbench_tellers_pkey  | 40 kB  | 0 bytes
 pgbench_branches_pkey | 16 kB  | 0 bytes
(4 rows)

 Functions

pg_relation_size(oid) - returns disk space occupied by the table or index of the given oid.

pg_total_relation_size(oid) - returns total disk space of the table of given oid, including indexes and toasted data

Clearing OS cache

Run the following command as root

echo 3 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches

Adding libpq in Contrib module

To include libpq functions in the contrib module the following header should be included:

#include "libpq-fe.h"

However, it throws the following error:

error: libpq-fe.h: No such file or directory

This can be solved by including the following in Makefile of that contib

PG_CPPFLAGS = -I$(libpq_srcdir)

This includes the option -I../../src/interfaces/libpq during make and hence the header file becomes accessible. 

gdb commands

Future breakpoints

Set break point on future shared library:

set breakpoint pending on

Debug fork

To hold the forked process by gdb and not allow it to run independently:

set detach-on-fork off