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From: Mladen Gogala <mladen.gogala@vmsinfo.com>
To: Kevin Grittner <Kevin.Grittner@wicourts.gov>
Cc: Maciek Sakrejda <msakrejda@truviso.com>
Cc: sthomas@peak6.com <sthomas@peak6.com>
Cc: pgsql-performance@postgresql.org <pgsql-performance@postgresql.org>
Subject: Re: [HACKERS] Slow count(*) again...
Date: Thu, 03 Feb 2011 18:33:21 -0500
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Kevin Grittner wrote:
> Mladen Gogala <mladen.gogala@vmsinfo.com> wrote:
>  
>   
>> Maybe we can agree to remove that ridiculous "we don't want hints"
>> note from Postgresql wiki?
>>     
>  
> I'd be against that.  This is rehashed less frequently since that
> went in.  Less wasted time and bandwidth with it there.
>   

Well, the problem will not go away.  As I've said before, all other 
databases have that feature and none of the reasons listed here 
convinced me that everybody else has a crappy optimizer.  The problem 
may go away altogether if people stop using PostgreSQL.
>  
>   
>> That would make it look less like , hmph, philosophical issue and
>> more "not yet implemented" issue,
>>     
>  
> Exactly what we don't want.
>   
Who is "we"?


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