Re: [PATCH] Proposal to Enable/Disable Index using ALTER INDEX

From: Sami Imseih <samimseih(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: David Rowley <dgrowleyml(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Robert Treat <rob(at)xzilla(dot)net>, Shayon Mukherjee <shayonj(at)gmail(dot)com>, jian he <jian(dot)universality(at)gmail(dot)com>, Gurjeet Singh <gurjeet(at)singh(dot)im>, Nathan Bossart <nathandbossart(at)gmail(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Proposal to Enable/Disable Index using ALTER INDEX
Date: 2025-07-22 23:04:50
Message-ID: CAA5RZ0vTsyjKeSpJbiDmNG-j1EsjVajjCkU46FggYWNxHpLCDQ@mail.gmail.com
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> Now wondering if it would be better to spend the effort looking at
> pg_hint_plan and seeing how hard it would be to get global hints added
> which are applied to all queries, and then add a way to disable use of
> a named index. (I don't have any experience with that extension other
> than looking at the documentation)

Regardless of what comes out of this thread, pg_hint_plan supporting
a NoIndexScan hint that takes in an index name, and not only a relname
is needed. I plan on taking that up there.

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Sami

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