Christopher Browne <cbbro...@gmail.com> writes:
> I picked values that I knew could be easily grabbed, and we don't
> have an immediate tuples-per-page estimate on pg_class.

Er, what?  reltuples/relpages is exactly that estimate --- in fact,
it's only because of historical accident that we don't store a single
float field with that ratio, rather than two fields.  Both the creation
and the usage of those numbers work explicitly with the ratio.

                        regards, tom lane


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