Development
`EXPLAIN ANALYZE` Statement
The query plan helps developers understand the performance characteristics of the query.
However, it is often also necessary to examine the performance numbers of individual operators and the cardinalities that pass through them.
The [`EXPLAIN ANALYZE`](#docs:guides:meta:explain_analyze) statement enables obtaining these, as it pretty-prints the query plan and also executes the query.
Thus, it provides the actual run-time performance numbers.