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by philh 724 days ago
I don't necessarily disagree. But I do think there's something to be said for knowing that my sql query is "just" slow, not trapped in an infinite loop. Not confident, but I feel like debugging "why is this query so slow that it hasn't returned yet" seems easier than debugging "why has this slow-or-maybe-nonterminating query not returned yet".
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Yeah, if your table sources are small enouguh it will probably be fast enough to analyze anyway.