Re: slow result - Mailing list pgsql-performance

From Heiko W.Rupp
Subject Re: slow result
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Msg-id 08E18820-41DF-4170-A39E-B5DFAAF1C690@redhat.com
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In response to slow result  (Laurent Manchon <lmanchon@univ-montp2.fr>)
List pgsql-performance
Am 23.01.2007 um 11:34 schrieb Laurent Manchon:

> Hi,
>
> I have a slow response of my PostgreSQL database 7.4 using this
> query below
> on a table with 800000 rows:
>
> select count(*)from tbl;

count(*) is doing a full tablescan over all your 800000 rows. This is
a well known "feature"
of postgres :-/

So enhancing the performance is currently only possible by having
faster disk drives.
--
Heiko W.Rupp
                    heiko.rupp@redhat.com, http://www.dpunkt.de/buch/
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