> And for those GUIs, wouldn't it be 97% as good to run an ANALYZE and give the > approximate record counts for large tables?
Interfaces which run a COUNT(*) like that are broken by design. They fail to consider the table may really be a view which of course could not be cached with results like that and may take days to load a full result set (we had some pretty large views in an old billing system).
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