That is a good question. The planner does more than just analyse the
query. It generates the Plan used by the executor, so that can't be
removed.
It is always a pain when the optimizer/planner takes longer than the
executor. We do have PREPARE/EXECUTE in 7.3beta for you to use.
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Ben McMahan wrote:
> I'm looking at different ways of optimizing queries with a large number of
> joins. I write the same query in a number of different ways and compare
> the running times. Now the problem is I do not want the optimizer
> changing the queries. So I explicit state the order of the joins in the
> FROM clause. I also turn off everything I can except for one type of join
> (say hash join), and I've turned off geqo. But I find that the PLANNER
> still takes an enormous amount of time for some queries. It doesn't look
> like the Planner is actually optimizing (changing) anything, but just in
> case, I was wondering if there was a way to turn off the PLANNER.
>
> Note, when I say an enormous amount of time, I mean at least double the
> time the EXECUTOR takes to actually answer the query.
>
> Thanks for your help,
>
> Ben McMahan
>
> ps. here is a small example of what my queries look like (so you can see
> if there is something else it might be deciding on):
>
> SELECT DISTINCT c0.x1 , c1.x2 , c0.x3 , c0.x4 , c2.x5
> FROM r1 c4 (x4,x2,x5) JOIN (r0 c3 (x2,x3,x5) JOIN (r2 c2 (x3,x1,x5) JOIN (r1 c1
> (x4,x1,x2) JOIN r1 c0 (x1,x3,x4)
> ON ( c0.x4 = c1.x4 AND c0.x1 = c1.x1 ))
> ON ( c0.x3 = c2.x3 AND c0.x1 = c2.x1 ))
> ON ( c1.x2 = c3.x2 AND c0.x3 = c3.x3 AND c2.x5 = c3.x5 ))
> ON ( c0.x4 = c4.x4 AND c1.x2 = c4.x2 AND c2.x5 = c4.x5 );
>
> A quick reminder, FROM r1 c4 (x4,x2,x5) just renames a table r1 into c4
> where it also renames the columns to x4, x2, and x5 respectively.
>
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