Re: Overriding the optimizer

[Mark Kirkwood <markir@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Craig A. James wrote:

> What would be cool would be some way the developer could alter the plan, 
> but they way of doing so would strongly encourage the developer to send 
> the information to this mailing list.  Postgres would essentially say, 
> "Ok, you can do that, but we want to know why!"

Yeah it would - an implementation I have seen that I like is where the 
developer can supply the *entire* execution plan with a query. This is 
complex enough to make casual use unlikely :-), but provides the ability 
to try out other plans, and also fix that vital query that must run 
today.....

cheers

Mark