On Thu, 2005-12-15 at 09:50 -0800, Kevin Brown wrote:
> > I mean, does it apply specifically to COUNT(*)? I checked the release
> > notes and I couldn't find mention of it...
> 
> If you're looking to find the total size of a table, no.  In
> PostgreSQL, that's a Fundamentally Hard Problem because of MVCC.

That's what I understood. SQLite doesn't have this problem because it's
single-process, and IIRC, MySQL either doesn't or didn't have this
problem because they ignored it :)

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