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From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Craig James <craig_james@emolecules.com>
Cc: pgsql-performance@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: count * performance issue
Date: Thu, 06 Mar 2008 12:29:22 -0500
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Craig James <craig_james@emolecules.com> writes:
> Count() on Oracle and MySQL is almost instantaneous, even for very large tables. So why can't Postgres do what they do?

AFAIK the above claim is false for Oracle.  They have the same
transactional issues we do.

			regards, tom lane

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