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Asked: 2026-06-13T14:53:16+00:00

I keep getting emails that state the following: [Your database X] contains 16,919 rows,

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I keep getting emails that state the following:

“[Your database X] contains 16,919 rows, exceeding the plan limit of 10,000. INSERT privileges to the database will be automatically revoked in 7 days. This will cause service failures in most applications dependent on this database.”

Even though I have limited the number of rows in my single table application to max 10 000, usually hovering at 9999.

I have checked the number of rows and the number of tables by psql and PGAdmin3.

Any idea how Heroku counts the number of rows in a database? Is this a platform bug or am I missing something?

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  1. Editorial Team

    Right now it makes estimated counts until you reach a certain threshold at which point it performs accurate counts (this mechanism subject to change). It will never revoke access or email a user without doing an accurate count first (SELECT count(*) FROM table1 + SELECT count(*) FROM table2 etc).

    It does not count system tables; it considers all user level tables. Oftentimes people don’t realize they have tables that are eating up rows, such as sessions, events or logs.

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