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Re: [HACKERS] []performance issues

Andrew Sullivan <andrew@libertyrms.info>

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From: Andrew Sullivan <andrew@libertyrms.info>
To: 'PostgreSQL general list' <pgsql-general@postgresql.org>
Date: 2002-08-02T18:11:09Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers, pgsql-general 
On Fri, Aug 02, 2002 at 09:57:16AM -0600, David Blood wrote:
> 
> Count() is slow even on your Sun server with 16gb ram?  How big is the
> database?

Well, just relatively slow!  It's always going to be relatively slow
to seqscan a few million records.  We have some tables which have
maybe 4 or 4.5 million records in them.  (I don't spend a lot of time
count()ing them ;-)

A


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