Re: slow result

You can also try this one:

ANALYZE tablename;
select reltuples from pg_class where relname = 'tablename';

Will also give almost the same results I guess...

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Shoaib Mir
EnterpriseDB (www.enterprisedb.com)

On 1/23/07, Bruno Wolff III <bruno(at)wolff(dot)to> wrote:
>
> On Tue, Jan 23, 2007 at 11:34:52 +0100,
> Laurent Manchon <lmanchon(at)univ-montp2(dot)fr> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I have a slow response of my PostgreSQL database 7.4 using this query
> below
> > on a table with 800000 rows:
> >
> > select count(*)from tbl;
> >
> > PostgreSQL return result in 28 sec every time.
> > although MS-SQL return result in 0.02 sec every time.
>
> Besides the other advice mentioned in this thread, check that you don't
> have a lot of dead tuples in that table. 28 seconds seems a bit high
> for even a sequential scan of 800000 tuples unless they are pretty large.
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