Re: contrib/plantuner - enable PostgreSQL planner hints

On Oct 6, 2009, at 2:57 PM, Oleg Bartunov wrote:
> this is an announcement of our new contribution module for
> PostgreSQL - Plantuner - enable planner hints
> (http://www.sai.msu.su/~megera/wiki/plantuner).
>
> =# set enable_seqscan=off;
> =# set plantuner.forbid_index='id_idx2';

Out of curiosity, did you look at doing hints as comments in a query?
I'm guessing you couldn't actually do that in just a contrib module,
but it's how Oracle handles hints, and it seems to be *much* more
convenient, because a hint only applies for a specific query. I think
it's extremely unlikely you would intentionally want the same hint to
apply to a bunch of queries, and extremely likely that you could
accidentally forget to re-enable something.

That said, thanks for contributing this!
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