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From: Kevin Brown <kevin@sysexperts.com>
To: Postgresql Performance <pgsql-performance@postgresql.org>
Subject: Re: Joel's Performance Issues WAS : Opteron vs Xeon
Date: Fri, 22 Apr 2005 23:30:45 -0700
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In-Reply-To: <20050423020151.GW58835@decibel.org>
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	<20050423020151.GW58835@decibel.org>

Jim C. Nasby wrote:
> Hrm... I was about to suggest that for timing just the query (and not
> output/data transfer time) using explain analyze, but then I remembered
> that explain analyze can incur some non-trivial overhead with the timing
> calls. Is there a way to run the query but have psql ignore the output?
> If so, you could use \timing.

Would timing "SELECT COUNT(*) FROM (query)" work?


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Kevin Brown					      kevin@sysexperts.com



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