On Fri, Nov 4, 2011 at 2:10 PM, Robert Haas wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 1, 2011 at 8:07 PM, Tom Lane 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 any
On Tue, Nov 1, 2011 at 8:07 PM, Tom Lane 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 t
Thom Brown wrote:
> > So if one set PGDATA to somewhere which had no database files at all,
> > but just postgresql.conf, it could still work (assuming it, in turn,
> > set data_directory correctly), but not vice versa. ?It would make more
> > sense to call it PGCONFIG, although I'm not proposing t
