Craig A. James wrote:
> Postgres functions like count() and max() are "plug ins" which has huge
> architectural advantages. But in pre-8.1 releases, there was a big
> speed penalty for this: functions like count() were very, very slow,
> requiring a full table scan. I think this is vastly improved from 8.0x
> to 8.1 and forward; others might be able to comment whether count() is
> now as fast in Postgres as Oracle. The "idiom" to replace count() was
^^^^^^
BigDBMS == Oracle. ;-)
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