laurenz_albe

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   by laurenz_albe 3y ago

   PostgreSQL itself doesn't hire anyone. The trade mark is owned by the "PostgreSQL Community Association of Canada" ( https://www.postgres.ca/ ), which does not hire people or engage in commercial activity. It&#
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   by laurenz_albe 6y ago

   This seems to be unfounded criticism. When statistics are gathered, PostgreSQL samples a certain percentage of the table, so that obviously scales. The number of "most common values" and histogram buckets scales up to 10000, which
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   by laurenz_albe 8y ago

   That is not what "they" are saying. count(1) and count(*) are equally fast because they are doing the same thing.