On Tue, Aug 09, 2005 at 10:49:14PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
>
> Current best practice is to run the explain and parse out the "rows"
> figure using a perl (or axe-of-choice) regexp, though we could be
> persuaded to supply a simpler API if there's enough demand for it.
FWIW, this was another one of those things I must have heard a dozen
times at OSCON. I suspect the simpler API would be popular,
particularly since post-8.0 the estimates are more reliable than they
used to be.
A
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