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From: Michael Fuhr <mike@fuhr.org>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: dracula007@atlas.cz
Cc: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: **SPAM** Faster count(*)?
Date: Tue, 9 Aug 2005 21:29:13 -0600
Message-ID: <20050810032913.GA40917@winnie.fuhr.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <21626.1123642154@sss.pgh.pa.us>
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	<21626.1123642154@sss.pgh.pa.us>

On Tue, Aug 09, 2005 at 10:49:14PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> Current best practice is to run the explain and parse out the "rows"
> figure using a perl (or axe-of-choice) regexp, though we could be
> persuaded to supply a simpler API if there's enough demand for it.

Somebody else requested a row-count-estimate function a couple of
weeks ago:

http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-admin/2005-07/msg00256.php

-- 
Michael Fuhr



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