Re: getting estimated cost to agree with actual

"Scott Marlowe" <scott.marlowe@gmail.com> writes:

> On Mon, Jun 2, 2008 at 3:43 PM, Justin <justin@emproshunts.com> wrote:
>>
>> I have noticed that  estimated Cost to do the query is way off from Actual.
>
> Well, they're not measured in the same units.  estimated costs are in
> terms of the cost to sequentially scan a single tuple, while actual
> costs are in milliseconds.

s/tuple/page/

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