Re: Various performance questions

From: Neil Conway <neilc(at)samurai(dot)com>
To: Greg Stark <gsstark(at)mit(dot)edu>
Cc: Dror Matalon <dror(at)zapatec(dot)com>, PostgreSQL Performance <pgsql-performance(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Various performance questions
Date: 2003-10-27 15:41:49
Message-ID: 1067269309.459.33.camel@tokyo
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On Sun, 2003-10-26 at 22:49, Greg Stark wrote:
> What version of postgres is this?. In 7.4 (and maybe 7.3?) count() uses an
> int8 to store its count so it's not limited to 4 billion records.
> Unfortunately int8 is somewhat inefficient as it has to be dynamically
> allocated repeatedly.

Uh, what? Why would an int8 need to be "dynamically allocated
repeatedly"?

-Neil

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