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From: Thomas Kellerer <spam_eater@gmx.net>
To: pgsql-performance@lists.postgresql.org
Subject: Surprising benchmark count(1) vs. count(*)
Date: Thu, 19 Sep 2019 12:09:32 +0200
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https://blog.jooq.org/2019/09/19/whats-faster-count-or-count1/

Is there a reason why count(*) seems to be faster? 

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