Tom, I am very strongly in favor of this idea. I would personally prefer it if the Join collapsing parmeter could be set at query time through a SET statement, but will of course defer to the difficulty level in doing so.
> Comments? In particular, can anyone think of pithy names for these > variables? The best I'd been able to come up with is MAX_JOIN_COLLAPSE > and MAX_FROM_COLLAPSE, but neither of these exactly sing... How about: EXPLICIT_JOIN_MINIMUM and FROM_COLLAPSE_LIMIT Just to make the two params not sound so identical? -- -Josh Berkus Aglio Database Solutions San Francisco ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 3: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate subscribe-nomail command to [EMAIL PROTECTED] so that your message can get through to the mailing list cleanly