Re: Improving planning of outer joins

From: Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: pgsql-hackers(at)postgreSQL(dot)org
Subject: Re: Improving planning of outer joins
Date: 2005-12-16 19:41:53
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On Wed, 2005-12-14 at 21:27 -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> I've spent some time looking into how we can improve our planning of outer
> joins.

Sounds good.

> I'm not sure whether we'd need any additional planner knobs to control
> this. I think that the existing join_collapse_limit GUC variable should
> continue to exist, but its effect on left/right joins will be the same as
> for inner joins. If anyone wants to force join order for outer joins more
> than for inner joins, we'd need some other control setting, but I don't
> currently see why that would be very useful.

Agreed. No additional GUCs required.

> Does this seem like a reasonable agenda

Yup - tis good.

Best Regards, Simon Riggs

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