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Query Plan

Indexing

The execution strategy chosen by the optimizer for a SQL statement. Represented as a tree of plan nodes (Seq Scan, Index Scan, Nested Loop, Hash Join, Sort, Aggregate, etc.). Viewable with EXPLAIN.

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EXPLAIN / EXPLAIN ANALYZEPlanner / Optimizer
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