I need to get statistics from a bunch of tables. Simply the number of records in them.
The query plan looks like this: => explain select count(id) from stuff; QUERY PLAN ------------------------------------------------------------------- Aggregate (cost=1629.69..1629.70 rows=1 width=8) -> Seq Scan on stuff (cost=0.00..1517.75 rows=44775 width=8) The sequential scan kind of worries me. Is there a better/faster way to do this? S. S. ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 2: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster