Re: **SPAM** Faster count(*)?

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

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Michael Fuhr