From: Brian Hurt <bhurt@janestcapital.com>
To: Craig A. James <cjames@modgraph-usa.com>
Cc: pgsql-performance@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Performance of count(*)
Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2007 12:10:51 -0400
Message-ID: <4602AA8B.3070505@janestcapital.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <46029DE3.9030505@modgraph-usa.com>
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Craig A. James wrote:
>
> One of our biggest single problems is this very thing. It's not a
> Postgres problem specifically, but more embedded in the idea of a
> relational database: There are no "job status" or "rough estimate of
> results" or "give me part of the answer" features that are critical to
> many real applications.
>
For the "give me part of the answer", I'm wondering if cursors wouldn't
work (and if not, why not)?
Brian
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