On Sun, Mar 6, 2011 at 5:41 AM, Martijn van Oosterhout
<kleptog@svana.org> wrote:
If it's really really important there are ways you can use trigger
tables and summary views to achieve the results you want. Except it's
expensive and when people are told that all of the sudden the count(*)
performance isn't so important any more. :)
That's often perfectly fine, with read-heavy, single-writer workloads.
I definitely wish there was a way to create indexes to track counters on various types of queries, even if it eliminates write concurrency on affected writes. Doing it by hand is a pain.
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Glenn Maynard
