How do I speed up counting rows in a PostgreSQL table?
For a very quick estimate: SELECT reltuples FROM pg_class WHERE relname=”my_table”; There are several caveats, though. For one, relname is not necessarily unique in pg_class. There can be multiple tables with the same relname in multiple schemas of the database. To be unambiguous: SELECT reltuples::bigint FROM pg_class WHERE oid = ‘my_schema.my_table’::regclass; If you do not … Read more