X-Original-To: pgsql-sql-postgresql.org@localhost.postgresql.org Received: from localhost (av.hub.org [200.46.204.144]) by postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 142809DCAEF for ; Fri, 17 Mar 2006 09:39:30 -0400 (AST) Received: from postgresql.org ([200.46.204.71]) by localhost (av.hub.org [200.46.204.144]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 77197-02 for ; Fri, 17 Mar 2006 09:39:33 -0400 (AST) X-Greylist: from auto-whitelisted by SQLgrey- Received: from floppy.pyrenet.fr (news.pyrenet.fr [194.116.145.2]) by postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D5A319DC86B for ; Fri, 17 Mar 2006 09:39:24 -0400 (AST) Received: by floppy.pyrenet.fr (Postfix, from userid 106) id 521C030CDD; Fri, 17 Mar 2006 14:39:28 +0100 (MET) From: Stefan Meyer X-Newsgroups: pgsql.sql Subject: rowcount for all tables Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2006 14:39:04 +0100 Organization: Hub.Org Networking Services Lines: 8 Message-ID: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@news.hub.org User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5 (Windows/20051201) To: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at hub.org X-Spam-Status: No, score=0 required=5 tests=[none] X-Spam-Score: 0 X-Spam-Level: X-Archive-Number: 200603/271 X-Sequence-Number: 24617 i have a beginner question and i have read the FAQs. is there a faster ways than select count(*) from foo; to get the rowcount for the tables in my db ? Stefan