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From Greg Smith
Subject Re: Slow "Select count(*) ..." query on table with 60 Mio. rows
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In response to Re: Slow "Select count(*) ..." query on table with 60 Mio. rows  ("Kevin Grittner" <Kevin.Grittner@wicourts.gov>)
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Kevin Grittner wrote: 
Matthew Wakeling <matthew@flymine.org> wrote: 
This is an FAQ.   
 
I just added it to the wiki FAQ page:
http://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/FAQ#Why_is_.22SELECT_count.28.2A.29_FROM_bigtable.3B.22_slow.3F
The content was already there, just not linked into the main FAQ yet:  http://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Slow_Counting

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