mladen.gogala@xxxxxxxxxxx (Mladen Gogala) writes: > I must say that this purist attitude is extremely surprising to > me. All the major DB vendors support optimizer hints, yet in the > Postgres community, they are considered bad with almost religious > fervor. > Postgres community is quite unique with the fatwa against hints. Well, the community declines to add hints until there is actual consensus on a good way to add hints. Nobody has ever proposed a way to add hints where consensus was arrived at that the way was good, so... -- http://linuxfinances.info/info/nonrdbms.html Rules of the Evil Overlord #192. "If I appoint someone as my consort, I will not subsequently inform her that she is being replaced by a younger, more attractive woman. <http://www.eviloverlord.com/> -- Sent via pgsql-performance mailing list (pgsql-performance@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-performance