On Fri, Nov 16, 2012 at 1:00 PM, Chris Tyler chris@tylers.info wrote:
(Investigations into PostgreSQL being insanely brain-dead continue. Example: query strategy for "SELECT COUNT(*) FROM FOO;" involves a "Sequential scan over 1496312 records." Srsly?)
http://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Slow_Counting
Short answer: upgrade to 9.2.
-- Jeff Ollie