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1384549993 I_kwDOBm6k_c5Sho5p 1818 Setting to turn off table row counts entirely 9599 open 0     4 2022-09-24T06:39:22Z 2022-12-11T02:03:09Z   OWNER  

There are situations - such as loading SQLite files remotely using HTTP range headers - where counting all of the rows in a table should be avoided entirely.

Also, this chunked inefficiency means that I have to hack the URL to not load tables of a database as it seems to try to load the whole database when I click on a database.

I bet that's because Datasette tries to show a count of all of the rows in each table when it shows the list on that page, which triggers a full table scan.

Would be great to have a setting that turns that feature off, which could then be exposed as a query string option for Datasette Lite.

Originally posted by @simonw in https://github.com/simonw/datasette-lite/issues/49#issuecomment-1256880715

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