Re: [HACKERS] Slow count(*) again... - Mailing list pgsql-performance

From Scott Marlowe
Subject Re: [HACKERS] Slow count(*) again...
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In response to Re: [HACKERS] Slow count(*) again...  (Greg Smith <greg@2ndquadrant.com>)
Responses Re: [HACKERS] Slow count(*) again...  (Greg Smith <greg@2ndquadrant.com>)
Re: [HACKERS] Slow count(*) again...  (Gorshkov <gorshkovlists@gmail.com>)
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On Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 8:40 PM, Greg Smith <greg@2ndquadrant.com> wrote:
> Scott Marlowe wrote:
>>
>> Yes they're useful, but like a plastic bad covering a broken car window,
>> they're useful because they cover something that's inherently broken.
>>
>
> Awesome.  Now we have a car anology, with a funny typo no less.  "Plastic
> bad", I love it.  This is real progress toward getting all the common list
> argument idioms aired out.  All we need now is a homage to Mike Godwin and
> we can close this down.

It's not so much a car analogy as a plastic bad analogy.

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