Re: Slow count(*) again...

From: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Neil Whelchel <neil(dot)whelchel(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-performance(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Slow count(*) again...
Date: 2010-10-13 13:28:43
Message-ID: AANLkTi=Cn1N8keywMbePZPiezg9cn_EXQZiLzF7cym+q@mail.gmail.com
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On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 6:16 AM, Neil Whelchel <neil(dot)whelchel(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> I might go as far as to rattle the cage of the developers to see if it makes
> any sense to add some column oriented storage capability to Postgres. That
> would be the hot ticket to be able to specify an attribute on a column so that
> the back end could shadow or store a column in a column oriented table so
> aggregate functions could work on them with good efficiency, or is that an
> INDEX?

I'd love to work on that, but without funding it's tough to find the
time. It's a big project.

--
Robert Haas
EnterpriseDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com
The Enterprise PostgreSQL Company

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