Re: Performance of count(*) - Mailing list pgsql-performance

From Jonah H. Harris
Subject Re: Performance of count(*)
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Msg-id 36e682920703220733s322788f7i5f89339466c7938c@mail.gmail.com
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In response to Re: Performance of count(*)  ("Merlin Moncure" <mmoncure@gmail.com>)
Responses Re: Performance of count(*)  (Mario Weilguni <mweilguni@sime.com>)
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On 3/22/07, Merlin Moncure <mmoncure@gmail.com> wrote:
> As others suggest select count(*) from table is very special case
> which non-mvcc databases can optimize for.

Well, other MVCC database still do it faster than we do.  However, I
think we'll be able to use the dead space map for speeding this up a
bit wouldn't we?

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