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Re: Seqscan rather than Index

From: Frank Wiles
Subject: Re: Seqscan rather than Index
Date: ,
Msg-id: 20041217170229.4de276a7.frank@wiles.org
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In response to: Re: Seqscan rather than Index  ("Steinar H. Gunderson")
Responses: Re: Seqscan rather than Index  ("Steinar H. Gunderson")
Re: Seqscan rather than Index  (Tom Lane)
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    Re: Seqscan rather than Index  ("Steinar H. Gunderson", )
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      Re: Seqscan rather than Index  (Frank Wiles, )
       Re: Seqscan rather than Index  ("Steinar H. Gunderson", )
       Re: Seqscan rather than Index  (Tom Lane, )
        Re: Seqscan rather than Index  (Frank Wiles, )
     Re: Seqscan rather than Index  (Bruno Wolff III, )
      Re: Seqscan rather than Index  ("Steinar H. Gunderson", ) 
On Fri, 17 Dec 2004 23:09:07 +0100
"Steinar H. Gunderson" <> wrote:

> On Fri, Dec 17, 2004 at 10:56:27PM +0100, Steinar H. Gunderson wrote:
> > I'm a bit unsure -- should counting ~3 million rows (no OIDs, PG
> > 7.4, everything in cache, 32-byte rows) take ~3500ms on an Athlon 64
> > 2800+?
>
> (I realize I was a bit unclear here. This is a completely separate
> case, not related to the original poster -- I was just wondering if
> what I'm seeing is normal or not.)

  It depends more on your disk IO than the processor.  Counting isn't
  processor intensive, but reading through the entire table on disk
  is.  I've also seen a huge difference between select count(*) and
  select count(1) in older versions, haven't tried it on a recent
  version however.

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   Frank Wiles <>
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