Re: select count(*) status these days

Dennis Gearon wrote:
> Is there any architectural way to speed it up? I'd actually like to run it every 2-60 seconds to update a counter on
apage for the marketing guy, (which for once, is me :- 

Could always maintain it with triggers.  See
http://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Slow_Counting for a discussion of this
whole issue, with pointers to articles about alternate solutions.

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