brian@omniti.com writes:
> Running this causes the thread to use 100% CPU and never returns (or at
> least not for longer than my patience runs out).
> This returns just fine on 8.4.1 and on 9.2beta.
Hmm ... seems to be a consequence of commit
3b8968f25232ad09001bf35ab4cc59f5a501193e. I wrote in that patch
+ * This looks expensive, but in practical cases there won't be very many
+ * distinct sets of outer rels to consider.
but evidently that was too optimistic :-(. Will need to think about
suitable heuristics for limiting the sets of outer relations we
consider building parameterized paths with.
regards, tom lane
