On Wed, 2007-11-28 at 14:48 +0100, Csaba Nagy wrote: > In fact an even more useful option would be to ask the planner to throw > error if the expected cost exceeds a certain threshold... Well, I've suggested it before: statement_cost_limit on pgsql-hackers, 1 March 2006 Would people like me to re-write and resubmit this patch for 8.4? Tom's previous concerns were along the lines of "How would know what to set it to?", given that the planner costs are mostly arbitrary numbers. Any bright ideas, or is it we want it and we don't care about the possible difficulties? -- Simon Riggs 2ndQuadrant http://www.2ndQuadrant.com ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 2: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster
