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From: Nikola Ivacic <nikola@rs-pi.com>
To: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org
Subject: count(*) optimization
Date: Wed, 8 Jan 2003 17:04:40 +0100
Message-ID: <024d01c2b72f$a6a7dcc0$1100a8c0@rspi> (raw)

Hi

I have trouble executing count(*) statement.
On a large dataset it takes quite a while to return result.
Is there any other way to get number of tupples in relation 
or is the only way to optimize count() function to index it? 

thanks

Nikola

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