d...@csail.mit.edu (Dan Ports) writes:
> I'm not clear on why the total rowcount is useful, but perhaps I'm
> missing something obvious.

It would make it easy to conclude:

   "This next transaction did 8328194 updates.  Maybe we should do
   some kind of checkpoint (e.g. - commit transaction or such) before
   working on it."

    versus

   "This transaction we're thinking of working on had 7 updates.  No
   big deal..."
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