On Fri, Nov 4, 2011 at 2:10 PM, Robert Haas <robertmh...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Tue, Nov 1, 2011 at 8:07 PM, Tom Lane <t...@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote: >> It's the "lobotomized engines" that are the problem, IMO --- people >> coming from databases like mysql tend to think count(*) just means >> reading a table size counter that the engine has anyway. > > This is probably a much less common misconception than formerly, due > to the rise of InnoDB and the falling-out-of-favor experienced by > MyISAM.
True. For instance the Drizzle project simply yanked myisam as an engine out of mysql for their fork, and made innodb the standard default table handler. -- Sent via pgsql-docs mailing list (pgsql-docs@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-docs
