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To: Josh Berkus <[email protected]>
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Subject: Re: [PATCHES] Approximate count(*)
Date: Sun, 27 Mar 2005 15:24:15 -0600
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Josh, David-
Do you think it's worth adding a function that would do the select for
you? IE: tuplecount('schema', 'tablename')?
On Thu, Mar 24, 2005 at 07:19:00PM -0800, Josh Berkus wrote:
> David,
>
> If Jim and I finish our work for 8.1, then you'll be able to do:
>
> SELECT approx_records FROM pg_sysviews.pg_tables WHERE schema_name = 'schema'
> AND table_name = 'table'
>
> But the same caveats will apply.
>
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