Re: [HACKERS] Something wacko about EXPLAIN cost stats

Can't reproduce it here.

> Current CVS sources are giving silly values for the cost fields of
> EXPLAIN output:
>
> treetest=> explain select * from marketorderhistory order by ordertime;
> NOTICE: QUERY PLAN:
>
> Sort (cost=??????? size=1610612736 width=1081364283)
> -> Seq Scan on marketorderhistory (cost=??????? size=1610612736 width=108136
> 4283)
>
> EXPLAIN
> treetest=> explain select * from marketorderhistory where ordertime = 'now';
> NOTICE: QUERY PLAN:
>
> Index Scan using marketorderhistory_ordertime_in on marketorderhistory (cost=??
> ????? size=-536870912 width=1074351372)
>
> EXPLAIN
>
> Looks the same before and after VACUUM, btw.
>
> regards, tom lane
>
>

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