How many times is gettimeofday called?
wow=# explain analyze select 1;
QUERY PLAN


------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 Result  (cost=0.00..0.01 rows=1 width=0) (actual time=0.008..0.010 rows=1 loops=1)
 Total runtime: 0.047 ms
(2 rows)

Several thousands?

Tom Lane wrote:
Teodor Sigaev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

Explain analyze takes 3 times more time for execution. Why?


Measurement overhead.  It would seem your platform has a particularly
slow version of gettimeofday() though ... I've never noticed such a
large discrepancy myself.

regards, tom lane

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