How do I speed up counting rows in a PostgreSQL table?

Question

We need to count the number of rows in a PostgreSQL table. In our case, no conditions need to be met, and it would be perfectly acceptable to get a row estimate if that sig

Answer 1

You can get an estimate from the system table "pg_stat_user_tables".

select schemaname, relname, n_live_tup 
from pg_stat_user_tables 
where schemaname = 'your_schema_name'
and relname = 'your_table_name';