>>That's the point. * has no meaning without FROM

>But COUNT(*) 
>
>does have meaning - it means "the number of rows".

which rows? :-)

> It's not counting the number of columns in the row, so postgres doesn't need 
> to know what columns exist in the row to return a row count.

>Geoff


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