Received: from maia.hub.org (maia-3.hub.org [200.46.204.243]) by mail.postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5454F1337B68 for ; Wed, 9 Feb 2011 21:58:18 -0400 (AST) Received: from mail.postgresql.org ([200.46.204.86]) by maia.hub.org (mx1.hub.org [200.46.204.243]) (amavisd-maia, port 10024) with ESMTP id 97995-09 for ; Thu, 10 Feb 2011 01:58:10 +0000 (UTC) X-Greylist: domain auto-whitelisted by SQLgrey-1.7.6 Received: from mail-iw0-f174.google.com (mail-iw0-f174.google.com [209.85.214.174]) by mail.postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8C21A1337B47 for ; Wed, 9 Feb 2011 21:58:10 -0400 (AST) Received: by iwn9 with SMTP id 9so796795iwn.19 for ; Wed, 09 Feb 2011 17:58:10 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to :subject:references:in-reply-to:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=3qxAa+N3Y8heWu6ImDBwgukZNIAg2/LOXeOG2Z4ozaw=; b=W3HOY1586jcav8YP8unrY4+6iLvo+ms9Ih0ff16m7CJVv6eExe/kMa4X75kOpSIF8X clMrxhFKJ1zUQe9rsuTySjL8J1FIgloxOkKceKIeHExH+Eic5epSRgOV7x+V4X8Hpi9g 9hUBLRZpRKFBMM5r+MHIzs+lNu6MRQ8WZkT7w= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references :in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=ghcSHBVFrWDmM//FBK5H1cP+GXe1+m4dwJsKggOfBg7NYbOnj3I7PUSJCOfCPAEMd1 0aNgwxXLQpbrAZQxBogZCRDGc+4rLgVdHSuLysx3YFiGjotE8gJrHTUx6DCZ2+DVEZRz DW4HTVILPHhBqBSZq1YP2hPQw0DfpoXWTNKpI= Received: by 10.42.179.73 with SMTP id bp9mr2567677icb.318.1297303090631; Wed, 09 Feb 2011 17:58:10 -0800 (PST) Received: from [172.16.6.33] ([64.231.130.212]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id gy41sm734213ibb.11.2011.02.09.17.58.09 (version=SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Wed, 09 Feb 2011 17:58:09 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <4D534634.7090902@gmail.com> Date: Wed, 09 Feb 2011 20:58:12 -0500 From: Gorshkov User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.13) Gecko/20101207 Thunderbird/3.1.7 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: pgsql-performance@postgresql.org Subject: Re: [HACKERS] Slow count(*) again... References: <201102012247.p11Ml6u02682@momjian.us> <4D48914B.4050403@dunslane.net> <4D489AD1.1010105@vmsinfo.com> <4D499E55.4020107@vmsinfo.com> <4D49A6B9.4060608@2ndquadrant.com> <4D49C482.4010707@vmsinfo.com> <4D49F0BA.9000901@2ndquadrant.com> <4D4A16BF.1020304@vmsinfo.com> <4D4A4844.3020409@2ndquadrant.com> <4D4AD9F6.6040903@vmsinfo.com> <4D4AE16E.9040807@peak6.com> <4D4B17B4.9030406@vmsinfo.com> <4D4B1F5B.4060403@peak6.com> <4D4B261B.6010303@vmsinfo.com> <4D4B2E8A.7010402@vmsinfo.com> <4D4ADF42020000250003A34C@gw.wicourts.gov> <4D4B3B41.7060803@vmsinfo.com> <4D4B4ACE.5090908@vmsinfo.com> <4D4B752F.6000605@2ndquadrant.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: Maia Mailguard 1.0.1 X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2.589 tagged_above=-10 required=5 tests=BAYES_00=-1.9, FREEMAIL_FROM=0.001, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW=-0.7, T_TO_NO_BRKTS_FREEMAIL=0.01 X-Spam-Level: X-Archive-Number: 201102/326 X-Sequence-Number: 42464 On 2011-02-03 22:48, Scott Marlowe wrote: > On Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 8:40 PM, Greg Smith wrote: >> 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. > > It's not so much a car analogy as a plastic bad analogy. > Don't be such an analogy Nazi.