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From Tino Wildenhain
Subject Re: does "select count(*) from mytable" always do a seq
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In response to does "select count(*) from mytable" always do a seq scan?  (Culley Harrelson <[email protected]>)
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Am Freitag, den 07.01.2005, 06:45 -0800 schrieb Culley Harrelson:
> Hi,
>
> I am using Postgresql 7.4.  I have a table with 1.5 million rows.  It
> has a primary key. VACUUM FULL ANALYZE is run every night.  There are
> 2000-5000 inserts on this table every day but very few updates and
> deletes.  When I select count(*) from this table it is using a
> sequence scan.  Is this just life or is there some way to get this to
> do an index scan?

How do you think an index would help if you do an unconditional
count(*)?

Regards
Tino

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