On Tue, 2006-09-26 at 11:06 -0500, Guy Rouillier wrote:
> Oliver Jowett wrote:
> > Isn't this just a very roundabout way of overriding the planner? i.e.
> > what you are really doing is saying "ignore your statistics, I know
> > more about the parameter values I'm going to give you than I'm
> > actually telling you"..
>
> Is there a non-roundabout way of overriding the planner? Oracle has
> hints. Sometimes the query analyzer benefits from a helping hand.
The PG core doesn't support hints. I believe the general feeling among
the PG developers is that their time is better spent making the planner
smarter than in supporting a hints system which would introduce its own
maintenance headaches.
-- Mark
