On 1/23/07, Laurent Manchon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
 Hi,

 I have a slow response of my PostgreSQL database 7.4 using this query below
 on a table with 800000 rows:

 select count(*)from tbl;

 PostgreSQL return result in 28 sec every time.
 although MS-SQL return result in 0.02 sec every time.

 My server is a DELL PowerEdge 2600 with bi-processor Xeon at 3.2 Ghz
 with 3GBytes RAM

if you need a fast approximate answer (up to date as of last analyze),
you can do something like:

select reltuples from pg_class where relname = 'tbl' and relkind = 'r';

if you need a fast exact answer, you need to write a trigger.

merlin

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