This module contains several functions that report the size of a given database object: int8 database_size(name) int8 relation_size(text) int8 pg_database_size(oid) int8 pg_relation_size(oid) int8 pg_tablespace_size(oid) text pg_size_pretty(int8) The first two functions: SELECT database_size('template1'); SELECT relation_size('pg_class'); take the name of the object (possibly schema-qualified, for relation_size), while these functions take object OIDs: SELECT pg_database_size(1); -- template1 database SELECT pg_relation_size(1259); -- pg_class table size SELECT pg_tablespace_size(1663); -- pg_default tablespace Please note that relation_size and pg_relation_size report only the size of the selected relation itself; any subsidiary indexes or toast tables are not counted. To obtain the total size of a table including all helper files you'd have to do something like: SELECT *, pg_size_pretty(tablesize+indexsize+toastsize+toastindexsize) AS totalsize FROM (SELECT pg_relation_size(cl.oid) AS tablesize, COALESCE((SELECT SUM(pg_relation_size(indexrelid))::bigint FROM pg_index WHERE cl.oid=indrelid), 0) AS indexsize, CASE WHEN reltoastrelid=0 THEN 0 ELSE pg_relation_size(reltoastrelid) END AS toastsize, CASE WHEN reltoastrelid=0 THEN 0 ELSE pg_relation_size((SELECT reltoastidxid FROM pg_class ct WHERE ct.oid = cl.reltoastrelid)) END AS toastindexsize FROM pg_class cl WHERE relname = 'foo') ss; This sample query utilizes the helper function pg_size_pretty(int8), which formats the number of bytes into a convenient string using KB, MB, GB. It is also contained in this module. To install, just run make; make install. Then load the functions into any database using dbsize.sql.