Simon Riggs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Thu, 2008-06-26 at 12:36 -0400, Robert Haas wrote: >> It's my understanding that the philosophy of the PGDG in the past has >> been to avoid putting any kind of hints into the system, focusing >> rather an improving the planning of queries.
> It's not a specific hint, its a general goal setting. Right. There are definitely places where we've made engineering judgements to not attempt a particular type of optimization because it'd be too expensive compared to the typical payoff. Simon's idea has some merit for providing a framework to deal with that type of situation. However, just adding a GUC variable isn't going to make anything happen --- we'd need some concrete plans about what we'd do with it. regards, tom lane -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers