Cedric BUSCHINI wrote:
> Hello everyone,
>
> A quick question:
> - how long does it take you to perform that query :
> "SELECT COUNT(*) FROM A_TABLE;"
Longer than I want to wait in any case. In most cases you can rewrite
that query to something else; what that something looks like, depends on
how exact you want the result to be. So the question to you is, what do
you want that number for?
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