Re: enforcing a plan (in brief)

From: Neil Conway <neilc(at)samurai(dot)com>
To: Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: "Hicham G(dot) Elmongui" <elmongui(at)cs(dot)purdue(dot)edu>, pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: enforcing a plan (in brief)
Date: 2005-02-11 03:40:45
Message-ID: 1108093245.30332.25.camel@localhost.localdomain
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On Thu, 2005-02-10 at 14:37 -0500, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> No, we feel that is of limited value. If the optimizer isn't doing
> things properly, we will fix it.

I agree that improving the optimizer is the right answer for normal
usage, so I can't get excited about query-level plan hints, but I can
see the capability to instruct the planner being useful in an academic
context.

-Neil

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