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

I wanted the total from all tables + a list of tables with their counts. A little like a performance chart of where most time was spent

WITH results AS ( 
  SELECT nspname AS schemaname,relname,reltuples
    FROM pg_class C
    LEFT JOIN pg_namespace N ON (N.oid = C.relnamespace)
    WHERE 
      nspname NOT IN ('pg_catalog', 'information_schema') AND
      relkind='r'
     GROUP BY schemaname, relname, reltuples
)

SELECT * FROM results
UNION
SELECT 'all' AS schemaname, 'all' AS relname, SUM(reltuples) AS "reltuples" FROM results

ORDER BY reltuples DESC

You could of course put a LIMIT clause on the results in this version too so that you get the largest n offenders as well as a total.

One thing that should be noted about this is that you need to let it sit for a while after bulk imports. I tested this by just adding 5000 rows to a database across several tables using real import data. It showed 1800 records for about a minute (probably a configurable window)

This is based from https://stackoverflow.com/a/2611745/1548557 work, so thank you and recognition to that for the query to use within the CTE