Richard Huxton <dev@xxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > I've never heard of EXPLAIN ANALYSE being *faster* than the actual > query, it's usually slower due to all the timing calls. The only thing > it doesn't do is actually send the results over the connection to the > client. In your case, you're not actually selecting any columns, so that > can't be it. If I'm reading it right the query returns 5000 instances of "1". So there's definitely scope for the client side to pose a performance issue. regards, tom lane -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general
