When you see plan on explain.depesz.com, one of the columns visible is exclusive.

In principle it's simple – take time of current node, subtract times of all sub nodes, and you get how much time was spent in this node alone.

Reality is not that simple. Two things especially make the calculations complicated. CTEs, and InitPlans.

Now, with the just pushed change to Pg::Explain (plan parsing library), and site itself, some of the bad calculations are gone.

Let's see some examples:

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