>> I've never heard of EXPLAIN ANALYSE being *faster* than the actual
>> query, it's usually slower due to all the timing calls. The only thing
>> it doesn't do is actually send the results over the connection to the
>> client. In your case, you're not actually selecting any columns, so that
>> can't be it.
>
> If I'm reading it right the query returns 5000 instances of "1". So
> there's definitely scope for the client side to pose a performance
> issue.
>
Query doesn't return 5000 instances of "1".
It returns just few rows of EXPLAIN output cos I do
EXPLAIN (without ANALYZE) ... NOT IN (a lot of values)
(pay attention to NOT IN)
And it works extremly slow oposite to
EXPLAIN (without ANALYZE) ... IN (a lot of values)
which works fast.
That is the main problem.
Another thing is that even I set statement_timeout to 20s the query
with NOT IN finishes working after 30+ seconds without "canceled by
statement timeout" error.
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