Re: Slow "Select count(*) ..." query on table with 60 Mio. rows

[Greg Smith <greg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Kevin Grittner wrote:

Matthew Wakeling <matthew@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
 
  

This is an FAQ.
    

 
I just added it to the wiki FAQ page:
 
http://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/FAQ#Why_is_.22SELECT_count.28.2A.29_FROM_bigtable.3B.22_slow.3F
  

The content was already there, just not linked into the main FAQ yet:  http://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Slow_Counting

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