Teodor Sigaev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> useful optimizations most of the time. Have you done any benchmarking >> to find out what the cost is when the optimizations don't succeed?
> Test runs on my notebook with PIII/512Mb, FreeBSD 6.1, postgres was compiled > with -O0 and --enable-debug --enable-cassert This is not responding to my concern. What you presented was an advertisement for the cases where the patch is able to find a better plan. What I want to know about is how much planning time is added for queries that it's *not* able to improve. EXPLAIN ANALYZE output doesn't address that point because it doesn't show planning time. regards, tom lane ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 9: In versions below 8.0, the planner will ignore your desire to choose an index scan if your joining column's datatypes do not match