On Fri, 23 Apr 1999, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> >
> > Hi All,
> >
> > I just did an explain and was wondering what is meant by cost. I just
> > got a 72.983 cost from a query I found not working. Any info or pointers
> > would be appreciated.
>
> Just added to explain manual page:
>
> 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?
-Greg