Re: Optimization via explicit JOINs

> On Fri, 9 Mar 2001, Stephan Szabo wrote:
> 
> ->Not entirely.  Those are only estimates, so they don't entirely line up
> ->with reality.  Also, I notice the first estimates 14 rows and the second
> ->1,  which is probably why the estimate is higher.  In practice it probably
> ->won't be significantly different.
> 
> So really I'm just getting back estimations of cost and rows returned?
> Incidentally, both queries returned the same data set, that's a Good Thing (tm).

Yeah, explain is mostly ofr showing what it's going to do and a little bit
of why it thinks it's a good idea.  Hmm, what were the two queries anyway?