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From: aoki@postgres.Berkeley.EDU (Paul M. Aoki)
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Subject: Re: system catalogs 
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wolska@maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca (Ewa Lata-Wolska) writes:
> Hi, I have recently browsed through system catalogs and found out that
> in pg_class postgres does not update number of tuples in the given relation.
> Does it mean that the user should update number of tuples ?

the "vacuum" command does this for you.  (it's also a side effect
of building an index on a class.)
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