How do you find the row count for all your tables in Postgres

Question

I\'m looking for a way to find the row count for all my tables in Postgres. I know I can do this one table at a time with:

SELECT count(*) FROM table_name;
         


        

Answer 1

If you don't mind potentially stale data, you can access the same statistics used by the query optimizer.

Something like:

SELECT relname, n_tup_ins - n_tup_del as rowcount FROM pg_stat_all_tables;