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From: Marc Salomon <marc@library.ucsf.edu>
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Subject: how to get # of instances of a class
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Resent-Date: Fri, 01 Oct 93 12:06:10 PDT

Hi-

I would like to get the number of instances of a class, similar to the
select count(table) structure in INGRES/SQL.

Can this be done in postgres?

-marc
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