Hi, Jeremiah,
Jeremiah Jahn schrieb:
> doesn't that cause two queries? I used to do it that way and cut my time
> substantially by counting in-line. Even though the results were cached
> it still took more time.
This sounds rather strange.
> Also since the tables is constantly be updated
> the returned total would not always match the number of results on the
> second query.
Did you run both queries in the same transaction, with transaction
isolation level set to serializable? If yes, you found a serious bug in
PostgreSQL transaction engine.
Markus
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