Re: Discarding the resulting rows

On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 3:03 PM, Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 3:36 PM, Kevin Grittner
> <Kevin.Grittner@wicourts.gov> wrote:
>> "Murali M. Krishna" <murali1729@yahoo.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Basically, I would like to discard the result rows after doing all
>>> the work required to execute the query.
>>
>> I would use EXPLAIN ANALYZE SELECT ...
>
> There's some overhead to that, of course.
>

he could see the "actual time" in the very first row of the EXPLAIN
ANALYZE... isn't that a value that is more close to what the OP is
looking for?

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