Re: Cursor estimated row count

On Sat, Nov 12, 2005 at 01:50:20PM -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> Michael Fuhr <mike@fuhr.org> writes:
> > An occasionally asked question is "How can I find out how many rows
> > a cursor will return?" to which the answer is "Fetch them all."  But
> > what about a way to get the planner's estimate?  Would anybody find
> > that useful?
> 
> Given how far off it frequently is, I can't believe that any of the
> people who ask for the feature would find this a satisfactory answer :-(

That aside, do you see any problems with the code?  Is it at least
returning the right wrong answer? ;-)

-- 
Michael Fuhr