Re: Hinting the planner

Reg Me Please wrote:
> Hello all.
>
> I have some tables that contain exactly 1 row and that I use for searches with
> JOIN.
>
> Does it make any sense to hint the planner about this?
> If so, how can I send such hints to it?
>

You don't give hints to the planner.

The planner does use statistics gathered from an ANALYZE to generate the
best plan, so if you haven't analyzed your db you will not likely get
the best plans.

see
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.2/interactive/sql-analyze.html

and
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.2/interactive/sql-vacuum.html

also
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.2/interactive/maintenance.html

can explain these tasks in more detail.

If this is insufficient then you can also look at your config file.

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