> Neither of these problems have anything to do with statistics getting > stale.
... and the second one would benefit from a "meta-plan" facility which puts some "meta-plan" nodes on top of specific plans to dispatch based on parameter values at runtime. Incidentally, the dispatch could check the statistics assumptions too. If you don't need to do the planning for each execution, you could afford to check the assumptions for each execution instead... Cheers, Csaba. ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 1: 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