Great idea to compare plans across different systems using rows processed. A good yardstick, but slower sort-based plans from Postgres + MSSQL process fewer rows than faster hash-based plans from DuckDB. Postgres rows scanned also seem underreported. Nice to see some competition with ClickBench.

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