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

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