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From: Craig A. James <cjames@modgraph-usa.com>
To: Guy Rouillier <guyr-ml1@burntmail.com>
To: PostgreSQL Performance <pgsql-performance@postgresql.org>
Subject: Re: High update activity, PostgreSQL vs BigDBMS
Date: Sun, 07 Jan 2007 15:56:31 -0800
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Craig A. James wrote:
> The "idiom" to replace count() was 
> "select col from tbl order by col desc limit 1".  It worked miracles for 
> my app.

Sorry, I meant to write, "the idiom to replace MAX()", not count()...  MAX() was the function that was killing me, 'tho count() also gave me problems.

Craig

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