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From Gurjeet Singh
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Msg-id CABwTF4WOpQi53+rSoHOrP1j0LpbQ7vtyF2mvOP__cZwmas4Scw@mail.gmail.com
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<div dir="ltr">Can somebody explain why a standalone count(*) returns 1?<br /><br />postgres=# select count(*);<br
/> count<br />-------<br />     1<br />(1 row)<br /><br />I agree it's an odd thing for someone to query, but I feel it
shouldreturn 0, and not 1.<br clear="all" /><br />-- <br /><div dir="ltr">Gurjeet Singh<br /><br /><a
href="http://gurjeet.singh.im/"target="_blank">http://gurjeet.singh.im/</a><br /></div></div>

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