On Wed, Jan 08, 2003 at 17:04:40 +0100,
Nikola Ivacic <nikola(at)rs-pi(dot)com> wrote:
> Hi
>
> I have trouble executing count(*) statement.
> On a large dataset it takes quite a while to return result.
> Is there any other way to get number of tupples in relation
> or is the only way to optimize count() function to index it?
Indexes won't help count.
If you retrieve counts a lot more than you do updates that will change their
value, then you may want to keep the counts in another table and use
triggers to keep them updated.