On Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 10:04 AM, decibel <decibel@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Out of curiosity, did you look at doing hints as comments in a query? I'm > guessing you couldn't actually do that in just a contrib module, but it's > how Oracle handles hints, and it seems to be *much* more convenient, because > a hint only applies for a specific query Fwiw Oracle is moving away from this now. At OpenWorld the optimizer folks were pleading with folks to get rid of all their hard-coded hints by preparing plans for hinted queries and loading those as the approved plans. In 11g there's a system which ensures the database will not run any plan that isn't approved. In fact it looks an *awful* lot like the system I sketched out 6 years ago in: http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.db.postgresql.devel.general/11385 -- greg -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general
