How to interpret PostgreSQL EXPLAIN ANALYZE outputUPDATED July 2023: EXPLAIN ANALYZE is the key to optimizing SQL statements in PostgreSQL. This article does not attempt to explain everything there is to it. Rather, I want to give you a brief introduction, explain what to look for and show you some helpful tools to visualize the output. Also, I want to call your attention to a new patch I wrote which has been included in PostgreSQL 16, EXPLAIN GE
