tl;dr; SELECT pg_database.datname, pg_database_size(pg_database.datname), pg_size_pretty(pg_database_size(pg_database.datname)) FROM pg_database ORDER by 2 DESC;

I recently had to transfer all my postgres data for my local databases on the laptop. Although I, unfortunately, can't remember what it was before I deleted a bunch of databases, now after some clean up, all my PostgreSQL databases weighs 12GB.

To find out the size of all your database, start psql like this:

$ psql postgres

Then run this:


SELECT pg_database.datname, 
pg_database_size(pg_database.datname), 
pg_size_pretty(pg_database_size(pg_database.datname)) 
FROM pg_database ORDER by 2 DESC;

Here's what it looked like on my laptop:

postgres=# SELECT pg_database.datname,
postgres-# pg_database_size(pg_database.datname),
postgres-# pg_size_pretty(pg_database_size(pg_database.datname))
postgres-# FROM pg_database ORDER by 2 DESC;
         datname          | pg_database_size | pg_size_pretty
--------------------------+------------------+----------------
 songsearch               |      10689224876 | 10194 MB
 air_mozilla_org          |        355639812 | 339 MB
 kl                       |        239297028 | 228 MB
 kl2                      |        239256068 | 228 MB
 peterbecom               |        191914500 | 183 MB
 kintobench               |        125968556 | 120 MB
 airmozilla               |         41640452 | 40 MB
 socorro_webapp           |         32530948 | 31 MB
 tecken                   |         26706092 | 25 MB
 dailycookie              |         12935684 | 12 MB
 autocompeter             |         12313092 | 12 MB
 socorro_integration_test |         11428356 | 11 MB
 breakpad                 |         11313668 | 11 MB
 test_peterbecom          |          9298436 | 9081 kB
 battleshits              |          9028100 | 8817 kB
 thuawood2                |          8716804 | 8513 kB
 thuawood                 |          8667652 | 8465 kB
 fastestdb                |          8012292 | 7825 kB
 premailer                |          7676420 | 7497 kB
 crontabber               |          7586308 | 7409 kB
 postgres                 |          7536812 | 7360 kB
 crontabber_exampleapp    |          7488004 | 7313 kB
 whatsdeployed            |          7414276 | 7241 kB
 socorro_test             |          7315972 | 7145 kB
 template1                |          7307780 | 7137 kB
 template0                |          7143940 | 6977 kB
(26 rows)

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