<<Actually it's quite possible that that extra overhead in nested loop is largely gettimeofday() calls for the explain analyze. Does the query take less time run without explain analyze than it does run with it?
Do you mean that an EXPLAIN ANALYZE that runs longer than the actual query is a symptom of time being lost to a function call?
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