Re: count(*) optimization

The problem is in other software I use,
witch uses count(*) function to display relation properties

pgAdmin II
phpPgAdmin

Nikola


----- Original Message -----
From: "Bruno Wolff III" 
To: "Nikola Ivacic" 
Cc: 
Sent: Wednesday, January 08, 2003 5:22 PM
Subject: Re: [SQL] count(*) optimization


> On Wed, Jan 08, 2003 at 17:04:40 +0100,
>   Nikola Ivacic  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.
>