Re: [HACKERS] EXPLAIN and HashAggregate

2006-03-04 Thread Tom Lane
Stefan Kaltenbrunner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > it looks like that postgresql is actually allocating the memory for the > hashtable of the HashAggregate which is a bit unexpected for a plain > EXPLAIN. Not really. EXPLAIN runs plan setup (ExecutorStart). regards, tom

[HACKERS] EXPLAIN and HashAggregate

2006-03-04 Thread Stefan Kaltenbrunner
While playing around with large work_mem(or in that case a bit insane) and maintenance_work_mem settings I noticed that EXPLAIN behaves quite weird: foo=# set work_mem to 20; SET Time: 0.187 ms foo=# explain select count(*) from testtable2 group by a; QUERY