From: Mario Weilguni <mweilguni@sime.com>
To: pgsql-performance@postgresql.org
Cc: Jonah H. Harris <jonah.harris@gmail.com>
Cc: Merlin Moncure <mmoncure@gmail.com>
Cc: Andreas Tille <tillea@rki.de>
Subject: Re: Performance of count(*)
Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2007 15:36:32 +0100
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Am Donnerstag, 22. März 2007 15:33 schrieb Jonah H. Harris:
> On 3/22/07, Merlin Moncure <mmoncure@gmail.com> wrote:
> > As others suggest select count(*) from table is very special case
> > which non-mvcc databases can optimize for.
>
> Well, other MVCC database still do it faster than we do. However, I
> think we'll be able to use the dead space map for speeding this up a
> bit wouldn't we?
Which MVCC DB do you mean? Just curious...
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