Re: [HACKERS] []performance issues

From: Andrew Sullivan <andrew(at)libertyrms(dot)info>
To: 'PostgreSQL general list' <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: [HACKERS] []performance issues
Date: 2002-08-02 18:11:09
Message-ID: 20020802141109.R8966@mail.libertyrms.com
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On Fri, Aug 02, 2002 at 09:57:16AM -0600, David Blood wrote:
>
> Count() is slow even on your Sun server with 16gb ram? How big is the
> database?

Well, just relatively slow! It's always going to be relatively slow
to seqscan a few million records. We have some tables which have
maybe 4 or 4.5 million records in them. (I don't spend a lot of time
count()ing them ;-)

A

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