Received: from localhost (unknown [200.46.204.184]) by postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3EA712E008F for ; Tue, 25 Mar 2008 09:09:03 -0300 (ADT) Received: from postgresql.org ([200.46.204.71]) by localhost (mx1.hub.org [200.46.204.184]) (amavisd-maia, port 10024) with ESMTP id 31262-04-6 for ; Tue, 25 Mar 2008 09:08:52 -0300 (ADT) X-Greylist: domain auto-whitelisted by SQLgrey-1.7.5 Received: from ag-out-0708.google.com (ag-out-0708.google.com [72.14.246.241]) by postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1DFBB2E0082 for ; Tue, 25 Mar 2008 09:08:26 -0300 (ADT) Received: by ag-out-0708.google.com with SMTP id 23so6597329agd.5 for ; Tue, 25 Mar 2008 05:08:25 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:references; bh=WjQnmwYuGtQL6HjHAKpY/J/wV8trTUbvdtV+Lx1lAGo=; b=cJjUWt6+68a0mMPnPsZoyQJsnibA0A8pm3OZLzrsJVz2TyM/5/y0toxQGrJbut2gUWtrttlkhZrg2AFtRPWZAcwtYhoThxhgtr/cbVSsbF16GUhAPM8wgO1g7mxU+UszdNASG4YhIsMmBde24Ncrxf/G6gxsR/79dD3mjzWnsEA= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:references; b=CN8eZ9UAzxADFjILzyhbmDGZK4U2zqV0KpEE44uf9HlPbW/fS0FBPdKxXU2xGUE28xJhQiyjwh6UZs/L++nqeMiQr7B99Y0opo09ItX31XosqFd2vAHN4AeCQ8ABbs5JP9amJkY0vg3OO4mhrEPbcPcuAw9fkyIeG4ea6qW6Hyc= Received: by 10.100.253.12 with SMTP id a12mr18269116ani.56.1206446904964; Tue, 25 Mar 2008 05:08:24 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.100.105.20 with HTTP; Tue, 25 Mar 2008 05:08:24 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2008 17:38:24 +0530 From: "sathiya psql" To: "Alvaro Herrera" Subject: Re: what is the maximum number of rows in a table in postgresql 8.1 Cc: "Harald Armin Massa" , pgsql-performance@postgresql.org In-Reply-To: <20080325120101.GC6756@alvh.no-ip.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----=_Part_2772_2623071.1206446904957" References: <7be3f35d0803250448h62f47b13mebe0252fca9b90e1@mail.gmail.com> <20080325120101.GC6756@alvh.no-ip.org> X-Virus-Scanned: Maia Mailguard 1.0.1 X-Spam-Status: No, hits=0.001 tagged_above=0 required=5 tests=HTML_MESSAGE=0.001 X-Spam-Level: X-Archive-Number: 200803/467 X-Sequence-Number: 29421 ------=_Part_2772_2623071.1206446904957 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline > > > > Shows us the explain analyze. There is no problem with a large number > of records, as long as you're not expecting to process all of them all > the time. yes many a times i need to process all the records, often i need to use count(*) ???? so what to do ?? ( those trigger options i know already, but i wil l do count on different parameters ) > > > ------=_Part_2772_2623071.1206446904957 Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline


Shows us the explain analyze.  There is no problem with a large number
of records, as long as you're not expecting to process all of them all
the time.
yes many a times i need to process all the records,

often i need to use count(*) ????

so what to do  ?? ( those trigger options i know already, but i wil l do count on different parameters )



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