# relpages is the number of 8 Kilobyte pages used by each table.
SELECT relname, relpages FROM pg_class ORDER BY 2 DESC;
SELECT relname, relpages FROM pg_class ORDER BY 2 DESC;
Published July 4th, 2011
Find the tables in your database which occupy the most disk space.
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