Re: Getting

Dan --

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> From: Michael Holt <MHolt(at)terapeak(dot)com>
>To: Raghavendra <raghavendra(dot)rao(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>; Dan Ng <surfnet(at)yahoo(dot)com>
>Cc: "pgsql-admin(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-admin(at)postgresql(dot)org>
>Sent: Wednesday, January 23, 2013 9:55 PM
>Subject: Re: [ADMIN] Getting
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>Of course you can also see what the query plan will be without having to run the query through a standard explain query:
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>http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.0/static/sql-explain.html
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I am not familiar with the Oracle tools, but you should note that the "EXPLAIN ANALYZE" does actually do the transaction, so if you doing an update / insert / delete you may want to wrap it in an explicit transaction and then roll it back.

HTH,

Greg Williamson