Re: *sigh*

Doug McNaught wrote:
> Randolf Richardson <rr@8x.ca> writes:
> 
> 
>>        What about adding a "total number of rows" value to the internal 
>>header of each table which gets incremented/decremented after each row is 
>>INSERT/DELETE has been committed.  This way, a generic "count(*)" by itself 
>>could simply return this value without any delay at all.
> 
> 
> Because different sessions have a (validly) different concept of what
> that number should be, due to MVCC.

The count(*) information can be revisioned too, am I wrong ? I'm able to
create a trigger that store the count(*) information in a special table,
why not implement the same in a way "builded in" ?




Regards
Gaetano Mendola