Re: Optimizer Hint, to ignore limit and offset in optimizer plan

On Fri, 26 Jun 2020 at 09:49, Martin Handsteiner <
martin.handsteiner@sibvisions.com> wrote:

> Hello,
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> I’m aware, that taking limit and offset into account of optimizer plan is
> not a bug.
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> Nevertheless it is very often an unwanted feature.
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> As the postgres db has the issue with not supporting cursors over commit/
> rollback, it is necessary to use the limit and offset mechanism.
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> The problem now is, with either
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>    - not always possible to ensure a proper sort (application with sort
>    on header click),
>    - and also on complex queries and a lot of data, that will be slow
>    when sorting the result.
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> So if there would be an optimizer hint, that tells the optimizer to ignore
> limit and offset on generating a plan, it would be perfect.
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> Mainly having the same optimizer plan without looking on limit and offset,
> the possibitlity of having mixed data is drastically reduced.
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> Is there possibly already an optimizer hint, to trickout the optimizer,
> and tell him, that I want all the data, even if there is for eg a limit 10
> clause in the select?
>

It would be useful to have an additional optimizer flag, such as

enable_costlimit = true (default) | false

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