Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de> writes:
> I cannot reasonably plan some queries with join_collapse_limit set to 20. At
> least not without setting the geqo limit very low and a geqo_effort to a low
> value.
> So I would definitely not agree that removing j_c_l is a good idea.
Can you show some specific examples? All of this discussion seems like
speculation in a vacuum ...
regards, tom lane