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From Stefan Arentz
Subject Counting all rows
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Responses Re: Counting all rows  (Andreas Kretschmer <akretschmer@spamfence.net>)
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I need to get statistics from a bunch of tables. Simply the number of
records in them.

The query plan looks like this:

=> explain select count(id) from stuff;                           QUERY PLAN
-------------------------------------------------------------------Aggregate  (cost=1629.69..1629.70 rows=1 width=8)
-> Seq Scan on stuff  (cost=0.00..1517.75 rows=44775 width=8)
 

The sequential scan kind of worries me. Is there a better/faster way to do this?
S.S.


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