"Graeme B. Bell" <grb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > Every year or two the core count goes up. Can/should/does postgres ever attempt two strategies in parallel, in cases where strategy A is generally good but strategy B prevents bad worst case behaviour? Kind of like a Schrödinger's Cat approach to scheduling. What problems would it raise? You can't run two plans and have them both returning rows to the client, or performing inserts/updates/deletes as the case may be. regards, tom lane -- Sent via pgsql-performance mailing list (pgsql-performance@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-performance