At 8:56 AM -0500 9/15/05, Puneet Kishor wrote:
Hence, it might be worthwhile maintaining the meta information no matter what... most of the folks won't ever notice it, and everyone would marvel at how quickly COUNT(*) was returning the results.
You are assuming that everyone wants to do a count(), but many people don't; for them, putting that in the core slows things down; for people that do want it sped up, the trigger option is perfectly valid.
I support leaving things the way they are, with no extra meta-info maintained. -- Darren Duncan
