Re: []performance issues - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Andrew Sullivan
Subject Re: []performance issues
Date
Msg-id 20020802113932.D8966@mail.libertyrms.com
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In response to Re: []performance issues  (Yaroslav Dmitriev <yar@warlock.ru>)
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On Fri, Aug 02, 2002 at 03:48:39PM +0400, Yaroslav Dmitriev wrote:
>
> So I am still interested in PostgreSQL's ability to deal with
> multimillon records tables.

[x-posted and Reply-To: to -general; this isn't a development
problem.]

We have tables with multimillion records, and they are fast.  But not
fast to count().  The MVCC design of PostgreSQL will give you very
few concurerncy problems, but you pay for that in the response time
of certain kinds of aggregates, which cannot use an index.

A

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