Re: Huge Data

Richard Huxton wrote:

>PG uses MVCC to manage concurrency. A downside of this is that to verify the
>exact number of rows in a table you have to visit them all.
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>There's plenty on this in the archives, and probably the FAQ too.
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>What are you using the count() for?
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select logid, agentid, logbody from log where logid=3000000;

this query also returns after about 120 seconds. The table log has about
7 million records, and logid is the primary key of log table. What about
that? Why is it too slow?

-sezai