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From: Greg Smith <greg@2ndquadrant.com>
To: Scott Marlowe <scott.marlowe@gmail.com>
Cc: Mladen Gogala <mladen.gogala@vmsinfo.com>
Cc: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>
Cc: 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 22:40:31 -0500
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Scott Marlowe wrote:
> Yes they're useful, but like a plastic bad covering a broken car window,
> they're useful because they cover something that's inherently broken.
>   

Awesome.  Now we have a car anology, with a funny typo no less.  
"Plastic bad", I love it.  This is real progress toward getting all the 
common list argument idioms aired out.  All we need now is a homage to 
Mike Godwin and we can close this down.

-- 
Greg Smith   2ndQuadrant US    greg@2ndQuadrant.com   Baltimore, MD
PostgreSQL Training, Services, and 24x7 Support  www.2ndQuadrant.us
"PostgreSQL 9.0 High Performance": http://www.2ndQuadrant.com/books




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