I was thinking that it might be nice to be able to tell postgres to refuse to execute any plan with an estimated cost above some threshold. For example, earlier today I produced this extremely bogus execution plan with the following top line: Nested Loop Left Join (cost=13920.16..2257575559347.46 rows=3691992705807 width=128) After a call to ANALYZE, the same query gave me: Merge Left Join (cost=16382.02..16853.87 rows=126768 width=59) And runs in 5 seconds. If I had been able to tell pg to reject any plan with cost over, say 10E9, that would have saved my server from half an hour of nested sequential scans. Should I just use statement_timeout as a proxy for this? -jwb ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 6: explain analyze is your friend
