"SHARMILA JOTHIRAJAH" <sharmi_jo@yahoo.com> writes:
> I understand that. But why is that when oracle is given a hint to do full
> table scan instead of using index to get the count, it is still faster than
> postgres when both has the same explain plan? Oracle takes 34 sec and
> postgres takes 1 m10 sec . Is there anything that can be done in postgresql
> for speeding this up?
How large are the actual respective data files?
What are the columns in these tables? Do you have many char() and NUMERIC
columns?
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