On Tuesday 06 January 2004 17:48, D'Arcy J.M. Cain wrote: > On January 6, 2004 01:42 am, Shridhar Daithankar wrote: > cert=# select relpages,reltuples::bigint from pg_class where relname= > 'certificate'; > relpages | reltuples > ----------+----------- > 399070 | 24858736 > (1 row) > > But: > > cert=# select count(*) from certificate; > [*Crunch* *Crunch* *Crunch*] > count > ---------- > 19684668 > (1 row) > > Am I missing something? Max certificate_id is 20569544 btw.
Do 'vacuum analyze certificate' and try..:-) The numbers from pg_class are estimates updated by vacuum /analyze. Of course you need to run vacuum frequent enough for that statistics to be updated all the time or run autovacuum daemon.. Ran into same problem on my machine till I remembered about vacuum..:-) Shridhar ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 4: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster