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Re: [HACKERS] Slow count(*) again...

Greg Smith <greg@2ndquadrant.com>

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From: Greg Smith <greg@2ndquadrant.com>
To: Scott Marlowe <scott.marlowe@gmail.com>
Cc: Mladen Gogala <mladen.gogala@vmsinfo.com>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>, Kevin Grittner <Kevin.Grittner@wicourts.gov>, Maciek Sakrejda <msakrejda@truviso.com>, "sthomas@peak6.com" <sthomas@peak6.com>, "pgsql-performance@postgresql.org" <pgsql-performance@postgresql.org>
Date: 2011-02-04T03:40:31Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers, pgsql-performance 
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.

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