On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 10:42 PM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> "Greg Sabino Mullane" <greg@turnstep.com> writes:
>> Is there any chance we can raise the default geqo_threshold from
>> its current default of 12?
>
> We were over that just a few months ago.
Yeah. I think we need to see if we can do something about the
ridiculous amount of memory that the standard planner consumes for
large join problems. I would like to look into this problem, too,
which might be related, but have not had time:
http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2009-11/msg00328.php
...Robert