The SQL query you provided is used to calculate and display the size of a PostgreSQL database named 'database_name' in a human-readable format. The function pg_database_size()
returns the size of the specified database in bytes, and pg_size_pretty()
is a function used to convert the size in bytes to a more readable format with units like KB, MB, GB, etc.
SELECT pg_size_pretty( pg_database_size('database_name') );