> I have observed that the regular optimizer requires about 50MB to plan
> some ten-way joins, and can exceed my system's 128MB process data limit
> on some eleven-way joins. We currently have the GEQO threshold set at
> 11, which prevents the latter case by default --- but 50MB is a lot.
> I wonder whether we shouldn't back the GEQO threshold off to 10.
> (When I suggested setting it to 11, I was only looking at speed relative
> to GEQO, not memory usage. There is now a *big* difference in memory
> usage...) Comments?
You chose 11 by comparing GEQO with non-GEQO. I think you will find
that with your improved GEQO, GEQO is faster for smaller number of
joins, preventing the memory problem. Can you check the speeds again?
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