select count(*) from a large table is very slow - Mailing list pgsql-admin

From Jessica Richard
Subject select count(*) from a large table is very slow
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Msg-id 133912.35849.qm@web56406.mail.re3.yahoo.com
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Responses Re: select count(*) from a large table is very slow  (Kenneth Marshall <ktm@rice.edu>)
Re: select count(*) from a large table is very slow  ("Jonah H. Harris" <jonah.harris@gmail.com>)
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I have a ~30 milliow row table, select count(*) from this table is very very very slow...

How dow I get it run faster?

Thanks,
Jessica


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