#1448 (ok 4.3) Allow clicking an approximate row count to get a correct one

[Matthew Jaggard]

When I'm using phpMyAdmin normally, I want the table structure page to load as quickly as possible, so I set the threshold level for approximate row counts to a fairly low number. However, just sometimes I want to be able to quickly see the exact row count for a table. It would be nice if I could click on "~1,234,567" and have it go and do an exact count and replace "~1,234,567" with "1,500,000". Clicking on the sum at the bottom should go and update all the row counts on the page.

[Viduranga Wijesooriya]

Can you explain little more about the requirement please ?
Thank you

[Marc Delisle]

Viduranga,
this feature request should be part of GSoC 2014, please do not work on it. Approximate row counts are displayed (for example) in database Structure for tables using the InnoDB storage engine.

[Viduranga Wijesooriya]

Marc,
I hope to participate in GSoC 2014. So should I wait till google announces the mentor organizations list ?

[Marc Delisle]

Viduranga,
this feature will be assigned to a participating student in GSoC 2014. If you want to continue showing us your skills, please pick another feature (or bug).

[Viduranga Wijesooriya]

Okay. So can you point me to some features or bugs that are worth implementing because you know better than me. You what's worth and what's not

[Marc Delisle]

Try this bug (if you work on it, please add an entry in the ticket, saying so):

https://sourceforge.net/p/phpmyadmin/bugs/4204/

[Marc Delisle]

Implemented: https://github.com/phpmyadmin/phpmyadmin/pull/1173