On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 04:36:02PM -0400, Eric Schwarzenbach wrote:
> As I explained already (no pun intended) running the query using EXPLAIN
> makes the wild variation go away. So I cannot get explain results for a
> fast and for a slow execution.
EXPLAIN only determines and outputs the query plan. It does not actually
run the query.
You probably want to use EXPLAIN ANALYZE
