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Re:Amazon RedShift vs. local PostgreSQL by rarestblog on Friday February 15, 2013 @05:07PM (#5228963)
Honestly I don't know. Do you think it would be better? Could you explain why?
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Re:Amazon RedShift vs. local PostgreSQL by kapilvt on Friday February 15, 2013 @05:18PM (#5229026)
because it shows the estimated cost (plan) of the queries independent of the magically subtracted network roundtrip time. it also serves to show if the redshift even supports it.it.
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Re:Amazon RedShift vs. local PostgreSQL by rarestblog on Friday February 15, 2013 @05:23PM (#5229053)
Ahhh, you meant on the RedShift side. I did not think of it. It would have definitely been better. Good point!

It seems that it actually supports it http://docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift/latest/dg/r_EXPLAIN.html

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