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Re: Performance of count(*)

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Old 04-19-2008, 10:24 AM
Mario Weilguni
 
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Default Re: Performance of count(*)

Am Donnerstag, 22. März 2007 15:33 schrieb Jonah H. Harris:
> On 3/22/07, Merlin Moncure <mmoncure@gmail.com> wrote:
> > As others suggest select count(*) from table is very special case
> > which non-mvcc databases can optimize for.

>
> Well, other MVCC database still do it faster than we do. However, I
> think we'll be able to use the dead space map for speeding this up a
> bit wouldn't we?


Which MVCC DB do you mean? Just curious...

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