Amazon Redshift will no longer support the creation of new Python UDFs starting Patch 198. Existing Python UDFs will continue to function until June 30, 2026. For more information, see the [ blog post ](https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/big-data/amazon-redshift-python-user-defined-functions-will-reach-end-of-support-after-june-30-2026/). 

# STL\$1EXPLAIN
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Displays the EXPLAIN plan for a query that has been submitted for execution.

STL\$1EXPLAIN is visible to all users. Superusers can see all rows; regular users can see only their own data. For more information, see [Visibility of data in system tables and views](cm_chap_system-tables.md#c_visibility-of-data).

**Note**  
STL\$1EXPLAIN only contains queries run on main provisioned clusters. It doesn't contain queries run on concurrency scaling clusters or on serverless namespaces. To access explain plans for queries run on both main clusters, concurrency scaling clusters, and serverless namespaces, we recommend that you use the SYS monitoring view [SYS\$1QUERY\$1EXPLAIN](SYS_QUERY_EXPLAIN.md) . The data in the SYS monitoring view is formatted to be easier to use and understand.

## Table columns
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[\[See the AWS documentation website for more details\]](http://docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift/latest/dg/r_STL_EXPLAIN.html)

## Sample queries
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Consider the following EXPLAIN output for an aggregate join query: 

```
explain select avg(datediff(day, listtime, saletime)) as avgwait
from sales, listing where sales.listid = listing.listid;
                                  QUERY PLAN
                                  
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 XN Aggregate  (cost=6350.30..6350.31 rows=1 width=16)
  ->  XN Hash Join DS_DIST_NONE  (cost=47.08..6340.89 rows=3766 width=16)
        Hash Cond: ("outer".listid = "inner".listid)
        -> XN Seq Scan on listing  (cost=0.00..1924.97 rows=192497 width=12)
        -> XN Hash  (cost=37.66..37.66 rows=3766 width=12)
              -> XN Seq Scan on sales  (cost=0.00..37.66 rows=3766 width=12)
(6 rows)
```

If you run this query and its query ID is 10, you can use the STL\$1EXPLAIN table to see the same kind of information that the EXPLAIN command returns: 

```
select query,nodeid,parentid,substring(plannode from 1 for 30),
substring(info from 1 for 20) from stl_explain
where query=10 order by 1,2;

query| nodeid |parentid|           substring            |    substring
-----+--------+--------+--------------------------------+-------------------
10   |      1 |      0 |XN Aggregate  (cost=6717.61..6  |
10   |      2 |      1 |  -> XN Merge Join DS_DIST_NO   | Merge Cond:("outer"
10   |      3 |      2 |       -> XN Seq Scan on lis    |
10   |      4 |      2 |       -> XN Seq Scan on sal    |
(4 rows)
```

Consider the following query: 

```
select event.eventid, sum(pricepaid)
from event, sales
where event.eventid=sales.eventid
group by event.eventid order by 2 desc;

eventid |   sum
--------+----------
    289 | 51846.00
   7895 | 51049.00
   1602 | 50301.00
    851 | 49956.00
   7315 | 49823.00
...
```

 If this query's ID is 15, the following system view query returns the plan nodes that were completed. In this case, the order of the nodes is reversed to show the actual order of execution: 

```
select query,nodeid,parentid,substring(plannode from 1 for 56)
from stl_explain where query=15 order by 1, 2 desc;

query|nodeid|parentid|                          substring
-----+------+--------+--------------------------------------------------------
15   |    8 |      7 |                                -> XN Seq Scan on eve
15   |    7 |      5 |                          -> XN Hash(cost=87.98..87.9
15   |    6 |      5 |                          -> XN Seq Scan on sales(cos
15   |    5 |      4 |                    -> XN Hash Join DS_DIST_OUTER(cos
15   |    4 |      3 |              -> XN HashAggregate(cost=862286577.07..
15   |    3 |      2 |        -> XN Sort(cost=1000862287175.47..10008622871
15   |    2 |      1 |  -> XN Network(cost=1000862287175.47..1000862287197.
15   |    1 |      0 |XN Merge(cost=1000862287175.47..1000862287197.46 rows=87
(8 rows)
```

The following query retrieves the query IDs for any query plans that contain a window function: 

```
select query, trim(plannode) from stl_explain
where plannode like '%Window%';

query|                                     btrim
-----+------------------------------------------------------------------------
26   | -> XN Window(cost=1000985348268.57..1000985351256.98 rows=170 width=33)
27   | -> XN Window(cost=1000985348268.57..1000985351256.98 rows=170 width=33)
(2 rows)
```