Sorry. DB is Aurora Postgres 14.6. Hints are enabled via extension pg_hint_plan. But my question isn't so much about the hints but the execution plan and where the time is going and why it appears for 1 execution of the query skipping locked rows seems to take a lot more time than another execution of the query. Regards -----Original Message----- From: Andreas Kretschmer <andreas@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Wednesday, November 29, 2023 3:10 PM To: pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [EXT] Re: Query runtime differences- trying to understand why. External Email: Use caution with links and attachments. Am 29.11.23 um 21:25 schrieb Dirschel, Steve: > > I have a question on the execution time of a query and the > fluctuations I'm seeing. I enabled auto_trace to capture some actual > executions of a query by an app. Below are 2 executions of it. The > top one took 1.697 milliseconds. The 2nd one took 31.241 milliseconds. > Note the query has hints in it > what database are you using? PostgreSQL doesn't hav hints... Regards, Andreas -- Andreas Kretschmer - currently still (garden leave) Technical Account Manager (TAM) https://urldefense.com/v3/__http://www.enterprisedb.com__;!!GFN0sa3rsbfR8OLyAw!eF3r308h3pnOusNslRf-zZZ1LUoQFkGOKK47Sm1ByfdIdLAtF0xPY4-4Xuo_F25zoV12fGtyNUelCdG10fZEKldOigKm0FXp$