SQL snippet to get the size of each table in a PostgreSQL database.
This snippet retrieves the size of each table in a PostgreSQL database, ordered by size in descending order. The sizes are presented in a human-readable format.
SELECT
schemaname as schema_name,
relname AS table_name,
pg_size_pretty(pg_total_relation_size(relid)) AS total_table_size,
pg_size_pretty(pg_database_size(current_database())) as total_database_size
FROM
pg_catalog.pg_statio_user_tables
ORDER BY
pg_total_relation_size(relid) DESC;