On Thu, 2008-09-04 at 14:01 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> If anyone is willing to do comparative performance testing, I'll
> volunteer to make up two variant patches that do it both ways and
> are otherwise equivalent.
Why not do both, set via a reloption? We can then set the default to
whichever wins in general testing. There will always be cases where one
or the other is a winner, so having both will be useful.
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