| From: | Greg Smith <greg(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> |
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| To: | Dennis Gearon <gearond(at)sbcglobal(dot)net> |
| Cc: | pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: select count(*) status these days |
| Date: | 2010-10-19 05:26:00 |
| Message-ID: | 4CBD2BE8.6030105@2ndquadrant.com |
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Dennis Gearon wrote:
> Is there any architectural way to speed it up? I'd actually like to run it every 2-60 seconds to update a counter on a page for the marketing guy, (which for once, is me :-
Could always maintain it with triggers. See
http://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Slow_Counting for a discussion of this
whole issue, with pointers to articles about alternate solutions.
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Greg Smith, 2ndQuadrant US greg(at)2ndQuadrant(dot)com Baltimore, MD
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