PostgreSQL – How to Determine the Row Count of a Table

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You can count the number of rows in a table in PostgreSQL using the SELECT COUNT(*) query. Here’s how you can do it:

SELECT COUNT(*) FROM table_name;

Replace table_name with the name of the table for which you want to count the rows. When you run this query, PostgreSQL will return a single value, which is the total number of rows in the specified table.

For example, if you have a table named “employees,” you can count the rows in that table like this:

SELECT COUNT(*) FROM employees;

PostgreSQL will return a result like:

count 
------- 
1000 
(1 row)

In this example, the table “employees” contains 1000 rows.

Below is a screenshot of row count from a table named ‘sales’. Output of the query shown the table has 2 rows.

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