Re: Explain w/o execution

Posted in 1998

Lauri Pietarinen — Mon, 23 Feb 1998 01:12:28 +0200 — source: Informix-list mailing list archive (1991-1998)

The problem is, that it is not always possible to interrupt the query until after quite a while (for instance if the query involves a sort). It would need a onmode -z, which is not available to everybody. Art S. Kagel wrote: > You can begin execution then interrupt the query after a few seconds > the SET EXPLAIN output is written before the query is actually > executed. You do not need to wait for the query to complete. > > Art S. Kagel