[Phpwm] Postgres query plan terminology

David Goodwin david at codepoets.co.uk
Wed Oct 24 10:46:26 BST 2007


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Greg Jones wrote:
> Does anyone know of anything that will tell me what exactly is meant
> by the various terms used when I run an 'explain analyze' on a query?
> Some are fairly self explanatory ('seq_scan' vs 'index_scan' for
> example) but I have no idea what 'materialize' means in this context?
> 


our postgresql book - 0-7357-1257-3 (Douglas & Douglas) mentions
Materialize...


I could copy and paste it into here, but it doesn't mean much to me. Are
you sure the online postgresql docs don't cover this?

David.
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