Re: [HACKERS] []performance issues - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Andrew Sullivan
Subject Re: [HACKERS] []performance issues
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Msg-id 20020802141109.R8966@mail.libertyrms.com
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In response to Re: [HACKERS] []performance issues  ("David Blood" <david@matraex.com>)
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On Fri, Aug 02, 2002 at 09:57:16AM -0600, David Blood wrote:
>
> Count() is slow even on your Sun server with 16gb ram?  How big is the
> database?

Well, just relatively slow!  It's always going to be relatively slow
to seqscan a few million records.  We have some tables which have
maybe 4 or 4.5 million records in them.  (I don't spend a lot of time
count()ing them ;-)

A


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