PHPMyAdmin - Total record count varies

Question

I am running a request on a table of records with phpmyadmin, and the results count varies. For example, when showing the results it says "Showing records 1 - (~180,234 )".
This number changes each time I refresh, and no data is being added or removed.
When I do a SQL request for the record, the result stays the same. Is this an issue with phpMyAdmin?

Answer 1

For InnoDB tables, from phpMyAdmin's FAQ:

phpMyAdmin uses a quick method to get the row count, and this method only returns an approximate count in the case of InnoDB tables. See $cfg['MaxExactCount'] for a way to modify those results, but this could have a serious impact on performance.

http://docs.phpmyadmin.net/en/latest/config.html?highlight=maxexactcount#cfg_MaxExactCount