On Sun, 2006-10-08 at 18:05, Josh Berkus wrote: > Now, if you were offering us a patch to auto-populate the statistics as a > table is loaded, I'd be all for that. But I, personally, would need a > lot of convincing to believe that hints don't do more harm than good. Actually, I'd much rather have a log option, on by default, that spit out info messages when the planner made a guess that was off by a factor of 20 or 50 or so or more on a plan. I can remember to run stats, but finding slow queries that are slow because the plan was bad, that's the hard part.