Re: Slow count(*) again...

On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 6:16 AM, Neil Whelchel <neil.whelchel@gmail.com> wrote:
> I might go as far as to rattle the cage of the developers to see if it makes
> any sense to add some column oriented storage capability to Postgres. That
> would be the hot ticket to be able to specify an attribute on a column so that
> the back end could shadow or store a column in a column oriented table so
> aggregate functions could work on them with good efficiency, or is that an
> INDEX?

I'd love to work on that, but without funding it's tough to find the
time.  It's a big project.

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