On Mon, Feb 3, 2014 at 4:15 AM, Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm not really feeling a compelling need to change that. We've been
> displaying total runtime - described exactly that way - for many
> releases and it's surely is confusing to the novice that the time
> reported can be much less than the time reported by psql's \timing
> option, usually because of planning time.
I think that has a lot more to do with network roundtrip time and
protocol/serialization overhead.
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Peter Geoghegan
