Re: Planner hints in Postgresql

From: Atri Sharma <atri(dot)jiit(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Rajmohan C <csrajmohan(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Pg Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Planner hints in Postgresql
Date: 2014-03-17 15:55:41
Message-ID: CAOeZVifr=qsqPRtUYRj05GjVzy_FXoOSdc7o42jSKPe6OU0F3w@mail.gmail.com
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On Mon, Mar 17, 2014 at 9:22 PM, Rajmohan C <csrajmohan(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:

> I am implementing Planner hints in Postgresql to force the optimizer to
> select a particular plan for a query on request from sql input. I am having
> trouble in modifying the planner code. I want to create a path node of hint
> plan and make it the plan to be used by executor. How do I enforce this ?
> Should I create a new Plan for this ..how to create a plan node which can
> be then given directly to executor for a particular query?
>

Planner hints have been discussed a lot before as well and AFAIK there is a
wiki page that says why we shouldnt implement them. Have you referred to
them?

Please share if you have any new points on the same.

Regards,

Atri

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