Hello!
Explain analyze takes 3 times more time for execution. Why?
wow=# \timing
Timing is on.
wow=# select max(click.accesses) from click; max
---------- 10944762
(1 row)
Time: 105,654 ms
wow=# explain analyze select max(click.accesses) from click; QUERY
PLAN
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Aggregate (cost=1103.70..1103.70 rows=1 width=8) (actual
time=289.391..289.393 rows=1 loops=1) -> Seq Scan on click (cost=0.00..971.36 rows=52936 width=8) (actual
time=0.013..133.943 rows=52936 loops=1) Total runtime: 289.498 ms
(3 rows)
Time: 290,695 ms
wow=# select version(); version
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- PostgreSQL
7.4on i386-unknown-freebsd5.1, compiled by GCC gcc (GCC) 3.2.2
[FreeBSD] 20030205 (release)
(1 row)
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