Re: High update activity, PostgreSQL vs BigDBMS - Mailing list pgsql-performance

On Sun, 2007-01-07 at 20:26 -0600, Adam Rich wrote:
> I'm using 8.2 and using order by & limit is still faster than MAX()
> even though MAX() now seems to rewrite to an almost identical plan
> internally.


Gonna need you to back that up :) Can we get an explain analyze?


> Count(*) still seems to use a full table scan rather than an index scan.
>

There is a TODO out there to help this. Don't know if it will get done.

Joshua D. Drake

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