Re: [PATCHES] Approximate count(*) - Mailing list pgsql-docs

From David Fetter
Subject Re: [PATCHES] Approximate count(*)
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Msg-id 20050324175827.GC15848@fetter.org
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In response to Re: Approximate count(*)  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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On Thu, Mar 24, 2005 at 12:34:51PM -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> David Fetter <david@fetter.org> writes:
> > Please find enclosed a patch that shows how to get a quick
> > approximation of count(*) on a table.
>
> I'm not sure we should be encouraging people to look at reltuples...
> for one thing, it's deliberately a moving average under 8.0.

Should there be more caveats?

Cheers,
D
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