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Re: [HACKERS] Optimizer hints

Hannu Krosing <hannu@trust.ee> — 1999-08-02T12:53:18Z

John Ridout wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I know of course that the pgsql optimizer is never wrong

:) 

OTOH, it is never completely right either :)

> but for the sake of argument do you think we could have
> optimizer hints the way say MSSQL has them?

I think it has been discussed (a little) but more on the 
lines of 'the way Oracle has them' ;)

It seems that this is not currently very high priority for 
any of the current real developers, but if you would 
contribute a nice clean implementation I'm sure it would 
be accepted.

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Hannu