PostgreSQL itself doesn't hire anyone. The trade mark is owned by the "PostgreSQL Community Association of Canada" (https://www.postgres.ca/), which does not hire people or engage in commercial activity. It's just there…
This seems to be unfounded criticism. When statistics are gathered, PostgreSQL samples a certain percentage of the table, so that obviously scales. The number of "most common values" and histogram buckets scales up to…
That is not what "they" are saying. count(1) and count(*) are equally fast because they are doing the same thing.
PostgreSQL itself doesn't hire anyone. The trade mark is owned by the "PostgreSQL Community Association of Canada" (https://www.postgres.ca/), which does not hire people or engage in commercial activity. It's just there…
This seems to be unfounded criticism. When statistics are gathered, PostgreSQL samples a certain percentage of the table, so that obviously scales. The number of "most common values" and histogram buckets scales up to…
That is not what "they" are saying. count(1) and count(*) are equally fast because they are doing the same thing.