I know it's the same to count 1 o 20M rows, but it takes much longer
to count 20M. I really don't know much about the internal of the
driver, but maybe some kind of time out?
On Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 2:33 PM, Kris Jurka <books@ejurka.com> wrote:
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> On Fri, 22 Feb 2008, Andres Olarte wrote:
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> > Just did a quick test with synthetic data (20M rows 3 columns: serial,
> > timestamp, and text). And it worked ok both on Java (with driver
> > postgresql-8.1-407.jdbc3.jar) and PgAdmin.
> >
> > Perhaps you could try to build a test case to expose the problem?
>
> From a client perspective, select count(*) should be the same no matter
> how many rows there are and what types of columns are in the table, so a
> test case won't be helpful. If the JVM is just up and dying, that's the
> JVM's fault not a pg issue.
>
> Kris Jurka
>