Re: Slow "Select count(*) ..." query on table with 60 Mio. rows

From: "Kevin Grittner" <Kevin(dot)Grittner(at)wicourts(dot)gov>
To: "Greg Smith" <greg(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
Cc: "Matthew Wakeling" <matthew(at)flymine(dot)org>, <pgsql-performance(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Slow "Select count(*) ..." query on table with 60 Mio. rows
Date: 2010-01-14 18:12:17
Message-ID: 4B4F0A21020000250002E4B8@gw.wicourts.gov
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Greg Smith <greg(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> wrote:

> The content was already there, just not linked into the main FAQ
> yet:
> http://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Slow_Counting

For a question asked this frequently, it should probably be in the
FAQ. I'll add a link from there to the more thorough write-up.

-Kevin

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