From: Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>
To: Mladen Gogala <mladen.gogala@vmsinfo.com>
Cc: Chris Browne <cbbrowne@acm.org>
Cc: pgsql-performance@postgresql.org <pgsql-performance@postgresql.org>
Subject: Re: [HACKERS] Slow count(*) again...
Date: Fri, 4 Feb 2011 18:17:12 -0500 (EST)
Message-ID: <201102042317.p14NHCK12314@momjian.us> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4D4B231C.3030802@vmsinfo.com>
Mladen Gogala wrote:
> Chris Browne wrote:
> > Well, the community declines to add hints until there is actual
> > consensus on a good way to add hints.
> >
> OK. That's another matter entirely. Who should make that decision? Is
> there a committee or a person who would be capable of making that decision?
>
> > Nobody has ever proposed a way to add hints where consensus was arrived
> > at that the way was good, so...
> >
>
> So, I will have to go back on my decision to use Postgres and
> re-consider MySQL? I will rather throw away the effort invested in
You want to reconsider using MySQL because Postgres doesn't have hints.
Hard to see how that logic works.
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Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> http://momjian.us
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