On 19/10/10 11:15, Dennis Gearon wrote:
I'm about to launch an in house 'Aplpha' stage project. One of the marketing driven outputs on the page is filled by a: SELECT COUNT(*) WHERE date_field IS NOT NULL AND date_field> :todays_date; Last I heard, this kind of query is kind of slow on Postgres in particular, (Love postgres otherwise). Is this still true?
That depends on the selectivity of your where clause, nothing else. If date_field is indexed and pretty selective, it'll be quick.
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