> > The cost value is only meaningful to the optimizer in comparing various
> > query plans.
> >
> I got the 72.98 on this table while doing a simple "select * from
> publication" meanwhile I got nothing higher than 4 on any other table. Is this
> indicative of a problem?
No. It means the optimizer thinks it is going to have to do more work
to complete the query. All other methods it used to complete the query
had a higher cost. It is related to the number of rows in the table,
the indexes available, sorts needed, joins, etc.
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