Re: log_duration and \timing times repeatably much higher than "Total runtime" from explain analyze

Planning time?

On Fri, Oct 10, 2003 at 07:56:39PM -0400, Greg Stark wrote:
>
> Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us> writes:
>
> > I know \timing counts the time to transfer the data to the client, and I
> > think log_duration also might have that timing added too.  It does seem
> > like a long time to transfer data, though.
>
> a) Even when executing this query normally there's very little data.
>    About 1-20 records.
>
> b) this is on an explain analyze which only returns the 37 records of the
>    plan. I can't imagine that takes any real time.
>
> This is on a machine that's otherwise pretty much idle. It's a dual processor
> PII-900 and it used to perform fine. What's really strange is that some other
> queries perform fine but this one and a few others reliably takes this long
> and behaves this way under explain analyze. It's as if there's something
> specific about this query that triggers the delay.
>
> > >  Total runtime: 316.19 msec
> > > (37 rows)
> > >
> > > Time: 1333.72 ms
>
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> greg
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