Commit eb6af016 authored by Robert Haas's avatar Robert Haas

Document that COUNT(*) might not need a seq scan any more.

Noted by Josh Kupershmidt.
parent db6de5b7
...@@ -11102,8 +11102,10 @@ SELECT b1 = ANY((SELECT b2 FROM t2 ...)) FROM t1 ...; ...@@ -11102,8 +11102,10 @@ SELECT b1 = ANY((SELECT b2 FROM t2 ...)) FROM t1 ...;
<programlisting> <programlisting>
SELECT count(*) FROM sometable; SELECT count(*) FROM sometable;
</programlisting> </programlisting>
will be executed by <productname>PostgreSQL</productname> using a will require effort proportional to the size of the table:
sequential scan of the entire table. <productname>PostgreSQL</productname> will need to scan either the
entire table or the entirety of an index which includes all rows in
the table.
</para> </para>
</note> </note>
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