Re: *_collapse_limit, geqo_threshold

From: Dimitri Fontaine <dfontaine(at)hi-media(dot)com>
To: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, "pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: *_collapse_limit, geqo_threshold
Date: 2009-07-07 19:33:54
Message-ID: D98046E0-6DF0-4074-9AF6-694523CE6770@hi-media.com
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Le 7 juil. 09 à 21:16, Robert Haas a écrit :
> Now, here's another thought: if we think it's reasonable for people
> to want to explicitly specify the join order, a GUC isn't really the
> best fit, because it's all or nothing. Maybe we'd be better off
> dropping the GUCs entirely and adding some other bit of syntax that
> forces the join order, but only for that particular join.

MySQL calls them Straight Joins:
http://www.mysqlperformanceblog.com/2006/12/28/mysql-session-variables-and-hints/

I'm not sure our best move here would be in this direction :)
--
dim

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