Re: Timing of 'SELECT 1'

Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us> writes:
> I am timing small queries, and found that a PREPARE/EXECUTE of
> "SELECT 1" takes about 1.2ms on my machine.  A normal SELECT doesn't
> take much longer, so I am wondering why a simpler query isn't
> faster.

log_executor_stats output isn't really too helpful -- if you can get
some gprof or oprofile output, we might have a better chance of seeing
if there is anything we can improve.

-Neil