Re: Performance of count(*)

[Brian Hurt <bhurt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Craig A. James wrote:

> One of our biggest single problems is this very thing.  It's not a 
> Postgres problem specifically, but more embedded in the idea of a 
> relational database: There are no "job status" or "rough estimate of 
> results" or "give me part of the answer" features that are critical to 
> many real applications.
For the "give me part of the answer", I'm wondering if cursors wouldn't 
work (and if not, why not)?

Brian