Re: [BUGS] BUG #2429: Explain does not report object's schema

On Tue, May 16, 2006 at 04:36:36PM +0530, Gurjeet Singh wrote:
>    If a big JOIN query takes N minutes on MS SQL Server, and I wish
> to see the plan why it is taking that long, one would expect me to
> enable 'Show Execution Plan'  in the SQL Query Analyzer (similar to
> PG's EXPLAIN ANALYZE). And when I do that, the query now takes more
> than 2*N minutes to come back. I assume this extra delay is caused by
> the overhead of extra processing it does at row-source level (like how
> many rows passed through this row-source, average row-size, etc.).

I posted a patch last week on -patches which should dramatically cut
the overhead of EXPLAIN ANALYZE. Perhaps you could try that and report
your experience.

http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-patches/2006-05/msg00158.php

BTW, just showing the plan takes no time at all, just use EXPLAIN
without the ANALYZE.

Have a nice day,
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