Postgres 9 : - How to interpret the EXPLAIN query results

From: Khangelani Gama <kgama(at)argility(dot)com>
To: pgsql-admin(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Postgres 9 : - How to interpret the EXPLAIN query results
Date: 2015-03-25 08:00:49
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Hi

Please help, how can I interpret the following results of my EXPLAIN query
?, I can see that the query will through 18586018 rows, but what’s the
meaning of cost and width?

GroupAggregate (cost=762381141.96..768375132.77 rows=18586018 width=32)

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