Re: So, is COUNT(*) fast now? - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> writes:
> Anyhow, here's the scoop.  On my desktop machine running F14, running
> SELECT sum(1) FROM pgbench_accounts in a tight loop, 60 s worth of
> oprofile data:

> 176830   13.0801  postgres                 postgres                 ExecProject

Hm, that's weird.  In both these cases, I'd have expected that
ExecProject would get optimized away thanks to selection of a physical
tlist for the scan node.  Wonder if that got broken ...
        regards, tom lane