On 12/21/05, Alexander Scholz <alexander.scholz1@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Regarding the performance flow when trying to find out how many records > are currently being stored in the table, I don't see how an index should > help... Nevertheless we've created an unique index on "ID" but SELECT > count("ID") from "XYZ" still takes 35 seconds*. (ID is the primary key > basing on a sequence, select count(*) isn't faster.) I would like to redirect you to the zillions of mailing list posts about this subject :-). > So - what kind of indexing would speed this up then? None. greetings, Nicolas -- Nicolas Barbier http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html