Subject Re: [firebird-support] Count(*) on big tables
Author Helen Borrie
At 10:09 AM 6/05/2004 +0200, you wrote:

>This is such a good idea, that one wonders why it isn't integrated into
>Firebird in a transparent way. I mean, finding out the number of records
>in a table doesn't seem to me to be such a luxery... :-) A solution like
>this would certainly make every day life much easier.

Easier, in what way? what do you actually *need* a record count for? What
is its "meaning", in a multi-user system, if it is likely to be out of date
before your transaction is even finished? Just curious...

/heLen