Craig James <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Count() on Oracle and MySQL is almost instantaneous, even for very large > tables. So why can't Postgres do what they do?
AFAIK the above claim is false for Oracle. They have the same transactional issues we do. regards, tom lane -- Sent via pgsql-performance mailing list (pgsql-performance@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://mail.postgresql.org/mj/mj_wwwusr?domain=postgresql.org&extra=pgsql-performance