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		paulddraper on Sept 14, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: PostgreSQL 16 I am so glad psql got \bind. What good does EXPLAIN do if you're not running the same (parameterized) queries that your app does? Very cool.

literalAardvark on Sept 15, 2023 [–]

Explain for parameterized queries (which is indeed very important due to the way the planner works) used to work well with prepare+execute.

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