am Fri, dem 28.09.2007, um 11:56:46 -0400 mailte Mike Charnoky folgendes: > Hi, > > I am still having problems performing a count(*) on a large table. This > > Now, certain count(*) queries are failing to complete for certain time > ranges (I killed the query after about 24 hours). The table is indexed > on a timestamp field. Here is one query that hangs: Again: an index can't help! Because of MVCC: 'select count(*)' without WHERE-condition forces an seq. table-scan. Andreas -- Andreas Kretschmer Kontakt: Heynitz: 035242/47150, D1: 0160/7141639 (mehr: -> Header) GnuPG-ID: 0x3FFF606C, privat 0x7F4584DA http://wwwkeys.de.pgp.net ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 1: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate subscribe-nomail command to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx so that your message can get through to the mailing list cleanly
