Re: [ADMIN] pg_class reltuples/relpages not updated by autovacuum/vacuum

Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:

> I don't know what client-side code might be looking at
> relpages/reltuples.

I know that I find reltuples useful for getting an "accurate enough"
sense of rows in a table (or set of tables) without resorting to
count(*). I'd be OK with any two of pages, tuples, and density; but
dropping to one would make databases harder to manage, IMV.

Personally, I don't have much code that uses those columns;
eliminating an existing column wouldn't involve much pain for me as
long as it could still be derived.

-Kevin