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From Neil Conway
Subject Re: enforcing a plan (in brief)
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Msg-id 1108093245.30332.25.camel@localhost.localdomain
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In response to Re: enforcing a plan (in brief)  (Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>)
Responses Re: enforcing a plan (in brief)  (pgsql@mohawksoft.com)
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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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