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- [Generate A UUID](postgres/generate-a-uuid.md)
- [Generate Series Of Numbers](postgres/generate-series-of-numbers.md)
- [Get The Size Of A Database](postgres/get-the-size-of-a-database.md)
- [Get The Size Of A Table](postgres/get-the-size-of-a-table.md)
- [Getting A Slice Of An Array](postgres/getting-a-slice-of-an-array.md)
- [Insert Just The Defaults](postgres/insert-just-the-defaults.md)
- [Integers In Postgres](postgres/integers-in-postgres.md)

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# Get The Size Of A Table
In [Get The Size Of A Database](get-the-size-of-a-database.md), I showed a
PostgreSQL administrative function, `pg_database_size()`, that gets the size
of a given database. With the `pg_relation_size()` function, we can get the
size of a given table. For instance, if we'd like to see the size of the
`reservations` table, we can executing the following query:
```sql
> select pg_relation_size('reservations');
pg_relation_size
------------------
1531904
```
This gives us the size of the `reservations` table in bytes. As you might
expect, the referenced table needs to be part of the connected database and
on the search path.
See [the Postgres docs](http://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/static/functions-admin.html) for more details.