Craig James <craig_james@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://mail.postgresql.org/mj/mj_wwwusr?domain=postgresql.org&extra=pgsql-performance
