On Dec 20, 2006, at 17:34 , Josh ben Jore wrote:
I vaguely recall that there’s an interface to PostgreSQL 7.3 where
developers can directly feed it query plans. Can someone help me
remember where this lived and whether it worked?
The problem I’m looking at is that it’s difficult to impossible to
get optimal uses of indexes all the time. Some of our queries are
“optimized” particularly poorly. Perhaps, just perhaps it might be
useful to be able to write a query using the compiled form rather
than the SQL form. Any suggestions to help solve the real problem
of index hinting would also be welcomed.
I don't know anything about a particular interface to 7.3, but if
you're still using 7.3 and are having problems with plans not being
properly optimized, I highly recommend upgrading to 8.2. There have
been substantial improvements to both the planner in particular and
performance in general in the last four releases.
Michael Glaesemann
grzm seespotcode net
