On 11 June 2015 at 15:05, Marc Mamin <m.ma...@intershop.de> wrote: > That's the point. * has no meaning without FROM >
But COUNT(*) *does* have meaning - it means "the number of rows". It's not counting the number of columns in the row, so postgres doesn't need to know what columns exist in the row to return a row count. Geoff
