Received: from maia.hub.org (maia-5.hub.org [200.46.204.29]) by mail.postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 940EE133740B for ; Fri, 4 Feb 2011 18:59:52 -0400 (AST) Received: from mail.postgresql.org ([200.46.204.86]) by maia.hub.org (mx1.hub.org [200.46.204.29]) (amavisd-maia, port 10024) with ESMTP id 43543-01 for ; Fri, 4 Feb 2011 22:59:46 +0000 (UTC) X-Greylist: from auto-whitelisted by SQLgrey-1.7.6 Received: from momjian.us (momjian.us [70.90.9.53]) by mail.postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D5E461336FA7 for ; Fri, 4 Feb 2011 18:59:44 -0400 (AST) Received: (from bruce@localhost) by momjian.us (8.11.6/8.11.6) id p14MwIV28696; Fri, 4 Feb 2011 17:58:18 -0500 (EST) From: Bruce Momjian Message-Id: <201102042258.p14MwIV28696@momjian.us> Subject: Re: [HACKERS] Slow count(*) again... In-Reply-To: <4D4AF124.60904@2ndquadrant.com> To: Greg Smith Date: Fri, 4 Feb 2011 17:58:17 -0500 (EST) CC: Mladen Gogala , Robert Haas , Andrew Dunstan , Tom Lane , "david@lang.hm" , Craig Ringer , Vitalii Tymchyshyn , "pgsql-performance@postgresql.org" X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL124 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" X-Virus-Scanned: Maia Mailguard 1.0.1 X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.91 tagged_above=-10 required=5 tests=BAYES_00=-1.9, T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD=-0.01 X-Spam-Level: X-Archive-Number: 201102/224 X-Sequence-Number: 42362 Greg Smith wrote: > Check out > http://www.indeed.com/jobtrends?q=postgres%2C+mysql%2C+oracle&relative=1&relative=1 > if you want to see the real story here. Oracle has a large installed > base, but it's considered a troublesome legacy product being replaced +1 for Oracle being a "troublesome legacy product". -- Bruce Momjian http://momjian.us EnterpriseDB http://enterprisedb.com + It's impossible for everything to be true. +