On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 1:12 PM, Matthew Wakeling <matthew@flymine.org> wrote:
>
> Episode umpteen of the ongoing saga with my GiST indexes.
>
> For some reason, GiST uses loads of CPU. I have a query that runs entirely
> out of cache, and it takes ages. This much I have tried to fix and failed so
> far.
>
> What I would now like to do is to tell postgres about it, so that the
> EXPLAINs are correct. Is there a way to tell Postgres that an operator has a
> large CPU cost? I can tell it what the join selectivity is, but I can't find
> anything about CPU cost.
Not that I know of, but seems like it would be a reasonable extension.
...Robert
