diff --git a/TODO b/TODO
index c66485d..46a84f3 100644
--- a/TODO
+++ b/TODO
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 #    -*- mode: org -*-
 
+* TODO SQL: rework repo_history/repo_creations to use last_seen
 * TODO cache dir: split json data from other HTTP info
   for easier further processing of additional API data
 
diff --git a/bin/update-github-list b/bin/update-github-list
index 6263552..6efbeba 100755
--- a/bin/update-github-list
+++ b/bin/update-github-list
@@ -10,8 +10,17 @@ logfile=$HOME/.cache/ghlister/log/ghlister.$(date +%Y%m%d).log
 # catchup with recent changes
 $HOME/src/github-list-repos/bin/ghlister catchup &> $logfile
 
-# compute and store current totals
-all_repos=$(echo "select count(*) from repos" | $psql)
-fork_repos=$(echo "select count(*) from fork_repos" | $psql)
-orig_repos=$(echo "select count(*) from orig_repos" | $psql)
-echo "insert into repos_history(repos, fork_repos, orig_repos) values (${all_repos}, ${fork_repos}, ${orig_repos})" | $psql > /dev/null
+# XXX: computing the following stats via this script forced to have double
+# configuration for shell-vs-python. Also it's unneeded: we can compute the
+# same information (number of repos created per day) from the DB, via the
+# last_seen column.
+
+# dbservice=lister-github
+# dbconn="service=${dbservice}"
+# psql="psql --no-psqlrc --pset t --pset format=unaligned ${dbconn}"
+
+# # compute and store current totals
+# all_repos=$(echo "select count(*) from repos" | $psql)
+# fork_repos=$(echo "select count(*) from fork_repos" | $psql)
+# orig_repos=$(echo "select count(*) from orig_repos" | $psql)
+# echo "insert into repos_history(repos, fork_repos, orig_repos) values (${all_repos}, ${fork_repos}, ${orig_repos})" | $psql > /dev/null