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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