On Tue, Jan 19, 2021 at 2:47 PM Michael Lewis <mle...@entrata.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 15, 2021 at 3:27 PM Alexander Stoddard < > alexander.stodd...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> I am doing nothing to specify the optimizer. Do I have configurable >> options in that regard? I was unaware of them. >> > > Read up on join_collapse_limit and geqo. > > https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/runtime-config-query.html > > Note that you can set these values within your session to check and even > just run explain [query] to check if the plan that would be used varies. > Thank you for this. I can get different plans by changing the different parameters, but if the output of EXPLAIN VERBOSE tells me geqo planning specifically is being used I'm not seeing it. Is there a way to see in the explain plan if geqo was used?