Tom Lane wrote: > Peter Eisentraut <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> Bryce Nesbitt wrote: >> >>> They occur in finite time. That's good, thanks. But jeeze, can't >>> postgres figure this out for itself? >>> >> I'm sure you wouldn't appreciate it if PostgreSQL did a full table scan >> before each query to figure out the total size of the involved tables. >> > > It's also less than polite to complain about the behavior of > two-year-old releases, without making any effort to ascertain > whether more-current versions are smarter. > Sorry to offend. Are current versions smarter? The DB I was working with still had row counts of 1 after tens of thousands of records had been added.
With new versions, must the DB still be VACUUMED, or is that a bit more automatic? ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 4: Have you searched our list archives? http://archives.postgresql.org