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> I'm of a belief that *eventually* we really can take enough of the
> variables into consideration for planning the best query every time. I
> didn't say it was gunna be soon, nor easy though.
I agree. But I'd like to eliminate the optimizer variability which
depends solely on the syntactical differences between traditional and
"join syntax" inner join queries. If the reason for these differences
are to allow explicit control over join order, let's get another
mechanism for doing that.
- Thomas
