Re: [HACKERS] Slow count(*) again...

From: Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>
To: Mladen Gogala <mladen(dot)gogala(at)vmsinfo(dot)com>
Cc: Chris Browne <cbbrowne(at)acm(dot)org>, "pgsql-performance(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-performance(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: [HACKERS] Slow count(*) again...
Date: 2011-02-04 23:17:12
Message-ID: 201102042317.p14NHCK12314@momjian.us
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Mladen Gogala wrote:
> Chris Browne wrote:
> > Well, the community declines to add hints until there is actual
> > consensus on a good way to add hints.
> >
> OK. That's another matter entirely. Who should make that decision? Is
> there a committee or a person who would be capable of making that decision?
>
> > Nobody has ever proposed a way to add hints where consensus was arrived
> > at that the way was good, so...
> >
>
> So, I will have to go back on my decision to use Postgres and
> re-consider MySQL? I will rather throw away the effort invested in

You want to reconsider using MySQL because Postgres doesn't have hints.
Hard to see how that logic works.

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