Can somebody explain why a standalone count(*) returns 1?

postgres=# select count(*);
 count
-------
     1
(1 row)

I agree it's an odd thing for someone to query, but I feel it should return
0, and not 1.

-- 
Gurjeet Singh

http://gurjeet.singh.im/

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• Re: count(*) of zero rows returns 1 at 2013-01-13 21:43:28 from Tom Lane

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