Hello,
I've followed the last discussion about the particular case of
select count(*)s on large tables being somewhat slow.
I've seen also this issue already on the todo list, so I know
it is not a simple question.
This problem arises for me on very large tables, which I mean
starting from 1
On Thu, 8 Apr 2004, Cosimo Streppone wrote:
The alternative solution I tried, that has an optimal
speed up, unfortunately is not a way out, and it is based
on EXPLAIN SELECT count(*) output parsing, which
is obviously *not* reliable.
Try this to get the estimate:
SELECT relname,
Cosimo Streppone [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Is there an estimate time for this issue to be resolved?
Approximately never. It's a fundamental feature of Postgres' design.
As noted by Dennis, you can look at the pg_class statistics if a recent
estimate is good enough, or you can build user-level
