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From: Markus Schaber <schabi@logix-tt.com>
To: Alex Stapleton <alexs@advfn.com>
Cc: Merlin Moncure <mmoncure@gmail.com>
Cc: Carlo Stonebanks <stonec.register@sympatico.ca>
Cc: pgsql-performance@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Performance Optimization for Dummies 2 - the SQL
Date: Wed, 04 Oct 2006 14:11:35 +0200
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Hi, Alex,

Alex Stapleton wrote:

>> explain analyze is more helpful because it prints the times.
> 
> You can always use the \timing flag in psql ;)

Have you ever tried EXPLAIN ANALYZE?

\timing gives you one total timing, but EXPLAIN ANALYZE gives you
timings for sub-plans, including real row counts etc.

HTH,
Markus

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