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

Scott Marlowe <scott.marlowe@gmail.com>

From: Scott Marlowe <scott.marlowe@gmail.com>

To: Greg Smith <greg@2ndquadrant.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: 2011-02-04T03:48:46Z

Lists: pgsql-hackers, pgsql-performance

On Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 8:40 PM, Greg Smith <greg@2ndquadrant.com> wrote:
> 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.

It's not so much a car analogy as a plastic bad analogy.