On Sat, Jun 07, 2014 at 08:35:27AM -0400, Gurjeet Singh wrote:
> While reading [1] in context of Postgres Hibernator, I see that
> Mitsuru mentioned one of the ways other RDBMS allows count(*) to be
> driven by an index.
>
> > 'select /*+ INDEX(emp emp_pk) */ count(*) from emp;' to load index blocks
>
> I am not sure if Postgres planner already allows this,
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It does:
create table t (c, junk) as select *, repeat('a', 100)
from generate_series(1,10000);
alter table t add primary key (c);
vacuum t;
analyze t;
explain select count(*) from t;
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Noah Misch
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