pg_table_size – select * from depesz;

Waiting for 9.2 – NULLS from pg_*_size() functions

On 19t of January, Heikki Linnakangas committed patch:

Make pg_relation_size() and friends return NULL if the object doesn't exist.
 
That avoids errors when the functions are used in queries like "SELECT
pg_relation_size(oid) FROM pg_class", and a table is dropped concurrently.
 
Phil Sorber

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Waiting for 9.0 – table and index sizes

On 19th of January Tom Lane committed really brilliant patch:

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Add pg_table_size() and pg_indexes_size() to provide more user-friendly
wrappers around the pg_relation_size() function.
 
Bernd Helmle, reviewed by Greg Smith

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Waiting for 9.2 – NULLS from pg_*_size() functions

Waiting for 9.0 – table and index sizes