Re: count() in 9.2

Steve Horn wrote on 17.10.2012 17:00:
> One of the reasons that my team could not take advantage of
> PostgreSQL was due to the poor performance of count(*) aggregate
> function.

I wonder what kind of application makes a slow count(*) on a table a show stopper.

I have been developing DB centric applications for over 20 years now and that never has been any issue.

And which DBMS are you currently using?
I don't know any transactional DBMS that will do count all the rows in a table *really* fast...