>>>>> "Tom" == Tom Mercha <mercha_t@hotmail.com> writes:
Tom> Hi All
Tom> As we know, a query goes through number of stages before it is
Tom> executed. One of these stages is query optimization (QO).
That's not really true at all. One of the stages is query _planning_,
which takes the (rewritten) query as input and converts it to something
that the executor can take action on. There isn't actually any separate
"optimization" phase.
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