Re: Explain Analyze returns faster than psql or JDBC calls.

G B <g.b.coder@gmail.com> writes:
> How can  explain-analyze return significantly much faster than other means?

If the returned data is large or takes a lot of work to convert to text,
this could happen, since EXPLAIN ANALYZE doesn't bother to format the
tuples for display.  How big are those bytea columns, on average?

                       regards, tom lane

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