-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 David Fetter wrote: > Please find enclosed a patch that shows how to get a quick > approximation of count(*) on a table. You should mention that ANALYZE will also populate reltuples. To be real anal, you should say pg_catalog.pg_class too. :) Tom Lane asked: >> I'm not sure we should be encouraging people to look at reltuples... >> for one thing, it's deliberately a moving average under 8.0. > Should there be more caveats? Well, it already says "approximate", the value-laden word is "good". Perhaps if that went away...
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