Re: Performance of count(*)

Craig A. James wrote:

>
> One of our biggest single problems is this very thing.  It's not a
> Postgres problem specifically, but more embedded in the idea of a
> relational database: There are no "job status" or "rough estimate of
> results" or "give me part of the answer" features that are critical to
> many real applications.
>
For the "give me part of the answer", I'm wondering if cursors wouldn't
work (and if not, why not)?

Brian