> However, if statistics change, so does the query plan. So if you run a query then run the same query again with explain analyze, you don't have a guarantee of

> However, if statistics change, so does the query plan. So if you run a query then run the same query again with explain analyze, you don't have a guarantee of getting the same information back. And since explain analyze doesn't return the query results you are obligated to run two separated queries. If that's a problem you can use auto_explain.